APPENDIX A: ACRONYMS
To hopefully ease the burden of dealing with the ubiquitous
acronyms of cosmology, I have compiled a list of the most common
to be encountered in this paper.
- CBR - Cosmic Background Radiation
- CMBR/CMB - Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
- COBE - Cosmic Background Explorer
- CP - Cosmological Principle
- CRF - Cosmic Rest Frame
- eV,MeV - electron Volt, Mega-electron Volt
- MAP - Microwave Anisotropy Probe
- QSO's - Quasi Stellar Remnants
- RWM - Robertson Walker Metric
- SRA - Slow Roll Approximation
- SR - Special Relativity
- VEV - Vacuum Expectation Value