In the century since Einstein’s anno mirabilis of 1905, our concept of the Universe has expanded from Kapteyn’s flattened disk of stars only 10 kpc across to an observed horizon about 30 Gpc across that is only a tiny fraction of an immensely large inflated bubble. The expansion of our knowledge about the Universe, both in the types of data and the sheer quantity of data, has been just as dramatic. This talk will summarize this century of progress and our current understanding of the cosmos.
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Wright, E. (2007). A Century of Cosmology. In: Aschenbach, B., Burwitz, V., Hasinger, G., Leibundgut, B. (eds) Relativistic Astrophysics Legacy and Cosmology – Einstein’s. ESO Astrophysics Symposia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74713-0_15
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