Abstract. Recent observational advances have considerably improved the cosmological tests, adding to the lines of evidence, and showing that some issues under discussion just a few years ago may now be considered resolved or irrelevant. Other issues remain, however, and await resolution before the great program of testing the relativistic Friedmann-Lemaître model, that commenced in the 1930s, may at last be considered complete.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
THE CLASSICAL TESTS
The Physics of the Friedmann-Lemaître
Model
Applications of the Tests
THE PARADIGM SHIFT TO LOW MASS DENSITY
ISSUES OF STRUCTURE FORMATION
Voids
The Epoch of Galaxy Formation
CONCLUDING REMARKS
REFERENCES
