With String Theory to the Big Bang: A Journey to the Origin of the Universe

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Preface
Contents
1 Introduction
2 The Expanding Universe
	2.1	The Observation
	2.2	The Theoretical Description: Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity
3 The Building Blocks of Matter
	3.1	The Geiger-Marsden-Rutherford Experiment
	3.2	The Quantum Theory
	3.3	Particle Accelerators
	3.4	The Standard Model of Particle Physics
4 The Big Bang Theory: The Standard Model of Cosmology
	4.1	The Formation of Hydrogen and Helium
	4.2	The Cosmic Background Radiation
	4.3	Dark Matter
	4.4	The Formation of Stars and Galaxies
	4.5	Black Holes
	4.6	Gravitational Waves
5 String Theory
	5.1	The Necessity of a Quantum Gravity
	5.2	The Basic Idea of String Theory
	5.3	Open Questions of String Theory
	5.4	Additional Spatial Dimensions
	5.5	String Theory and Mathematics
	5.6	Unification: Extensions of the Standard Model
	5.7	String Theory and Dark Energy
6 The Very Early Universe from the Big Bang to 10−10 seconds
	6.1	Post-Planck Era and Inflation
	6.2	With String Theory to the Big Bang: The Planck Era
7 Summary and Outlook
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