The Cosmic Microwave Background - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Epigraph

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-ix

Acknowledgments

pp x-x

Introduction

pp 1-4

Part I - Physical cosmology: A brief introduction

pp 5-16

1 - Physical cosmology from Einstein to 1965

pp 7-8

2 - The “great controversy” (1948–1965) and epistemological issues it raised

pp 9-12

3 - Hot Big Bang and λCDM

pp 13-16

Part II - Discovery of the CMB and current cosmological orthodoxy

pp 17-38

4 - Discovery of the CMB

pp 19-23

5 - CMB phenomenology

pp 24-27

6 - Standard “textbook” history and its shortcomings

pp 28-32

7 - Emergence of precision cosmology

pp 33-38

Part III - What constitutes an unorthodoxy? An epistemological framework of cosmology

pp 39-60

8 - Underdetermination of theories and models in cosmology

pp 41-50

9 - Was the CMB a smoking gun?

pp 51-56

10 - Classifying and analyzing unorthodoxies

pp 57-60

Part IV - Moderate unorthodoxies: The CMB with the Big Bang

pp 61-102

11 - Cold and Tepid Big Bangs

pp 63-72

12 - Models with unresolved sources

pp 73-81

13 - Thermalization by grains, the first wave

pp 82-85

14 - Primordial chaos

pp 86-90

15 - Early intergalactic medium, massive Population III objects, and the large-numbers hypothesis

pp 91-97

16 - Late thermalization of starlight

pp 98-100

17 - “An excess in moderation”

pp 101-102

Part V - Radical unorthodoxies: The CMB without the Big Bang

pp 103-128

18 - Motivations

pp 105-107