Web links for Origin of the Universe, fall 98

COBE, NASA's Cosmic Bacground Explorer. Note especially the DMR (Differential Microwave Radiometer) pictures of the cosmic background radiation.

Cosmology, all of it, with many computer simulations from NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications)

Einstein Online: a large database, with many quotes and pictures

Hawking lectures on Origin of the Universe and Baby Universes

Hubble Space Telescope's home page has much to offer, mostly under Public, including:

• Latest news. Of special interest to us:
  farthest galaxies yet seen
  the birth of galaxies seen for the first time
• Measuring the expansion rate: the controversy on the age of the Universe

• animation of 4-d cube
• rhombic dodecahedron
• summary of math facts
• 4 to 7 dimensions

Simulations of galaxy creation by computers at Los Alamos National Lab

Many other links