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- From: metzler@pablo.physics.lsa.umich.edu (Chris Metzler)
- Subject: Re: Particle/Cosmology/Relativity Texts? *** A SHORT LIST ***
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- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 22:51:34 GMT
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- I would echo that Kane's books is a fairly good one -- of course,
- Kane taught my Particle class, so that could affect my
- viewpoint.
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- With that book (and especially the early chapter on the Higgs
- mechanism) behind you, the chapters on Phase Transitions,
- Inflation, etc., in
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- The Early Universe
- Edward Kolb and Michael Turner
- Addison-Wesley, 1990
- Frontiers in Physics #69
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- are digestable. I think this is the best overview
- of Physical Cosmology, Thermo, and early-universe/particle
- cosmology issues out there.
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