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Origin of the Universe - Class 4

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Comments on homework 2:
- Einstein revealed, part I, addresses the questions:
- - How did a patent clerk come up with 5 epochal papers in 1905?
- - Was Mileva Maric an important scientific collaborator? (Answer: No)
- A woman who did help Einstein find the correct equations of General Relativity is Emmy Noether. Read more about her in the Noether homepage and in the McTutor history of math.

Review by Olev Jaakson.

Addition of velocities: (u+v)/(1+uv/c²).

Big Rang Radiation, as advertised by Bell Laboratories.
See the official Nobel homepage for excellent links about the Nobel Prize to Penzias and Wilson for the discovery of the Cosmic Background Radiation.
See also the brief biography of Arno Penzias, with many additional links.

Viewed Einstein Revealed, part 2.

Notes on Open, closed, or flat: past and future of the universe.