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Cosmology is the study of the origin, nature and evolution of our universe. Its practitioners strive to describe cosmic history in quantitative detail, using the language of modern physics and abstract mathematics.
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In fact, removing the Earth from the center of the universe was not necessarily viewed as a demotion. In those days the further out you went from the center, the closer you got to the heavenly celestial realm.
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We are all familiar with x-rays, visible light and radio waves from our everyday lives. All of these are forms of electromagnetic radiation, which we will discuss later. Microwaves are a subset of radio waves.
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Perlov, D., Vilenkin, A. (2017). A Historical Overview. In: Cosmology for the Curious. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57040-2_1
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