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ABSTRACT

1.A NEW COSMOLOGY

1.1.Progress

1.2.Big Bang: Guilty of Not Having an Explanation

2.TUNNEL VISION: THE INFLATIONARY SOLUTION

2.1.Friedmann-Robertson-Walker metric -> Hubble's law and Cosmic Event Horizons

2.2.Inflationary Expansion: The Magic of a Shrinking Comoving Event Horizon

3.FRIEDMANN OSCILLATIONS: THE RISE AND FALL OF DOMINANT COMPONENTS

3.1.Friedmann's Equation -> Exponential Expansion

4.INFLATIONARY SOLUTIONS TO THE FLATNESS AND HORIZON PROBLEMS

4.1.What is the Flatness Problem?

4.2.Solving the Flatness Problem

4.3.Horizon problem

4.4.How big is a causally connected patch of the CMB without and with inflation?

5.HOW DOES INFLATION PRODUCE ALL THE STRUCTURE IN THE UNIVERSE?

6.THE STATUS OF INFLATION

6.1.Inflationary Observables

7.CMB

7.1.History

7.2.What is the CMB?

7.3.Spectrum

7.4.Where did the energy of the CMB come from?

7.5.Dipole

7.6.Anisotropies

7.7.What are the oldest fossils we have from the early universe?

7.8.Observational Constraints from the CMB

7.9.Background and the Bumps on it and the Evolution of those Bumps

7.10.The End of Cosmology?

7.11.Tell me More

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