"Origin" Bookmarks

USEM Origin of Universe

Ages of earth and humanity

Early man lectures by D.R. Johnson
Early man by D. R. Johnson, no pictures
Evolution of Man. The journey from ramidus to sapien wasn't easy.
EVOLUTIONARY/GEOLOGICAL TIMELINE v1.0
Hominid Species
Prominent Hominid Fossils
Institute for Human Orgins
The Stone Way - Ancestors prehuman and human fossils.
timeline

Anton Pannekoek Inst (Holland)

Astronomy Hot News
Astronomy information
Black hole candidates
Introduction to x-ray sources

Astronomical News
Astronomy Cafe Published Articles : Big Bang Cosmology
Baby Universes, Children of Blackholes (Hawking speech)
BeppoSAX MISSION HOME PAGE
Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
Big Bang Reading List

Black holes

Black Hole Masses from U. Southhampton
Mass of the Black Hole in M87

COBE - photo of the satellite itself
COBE DifferentialMicrowaveRadiometer Images
Corpus Hypercubicus - Dali's painting
COSMOLOGY LINKS

Courses on Cosmology and Origins

U. Sothhampton PH308
U Oregon course
"Cosmology and the origin of life" is rather nutty but has lots of good stuff

Dark matter

From USEM, by Jason Lepp

Baryonic Matter, from UOregon Astro class
Cluster Simulation from Dursi
Cold + Hot DM simul. from UC Santa Cruz
Cosmic Gallery from MIT: simulations
Many computer simulations of cosmic evolution in several dark matter models
Dark Matter primer from Berkeley CfPA
Detecting wimps at berkeley
From the Center for Particle Astrophysics at Berkely
DM tutorial from J. Dursi, Queens U.
Click on dm-tutorial for a summary; there are several animations.
Lecture on DM from U Oregon "Origin" course
Part of a course on "Origin", nutty but with a lot of good stuff
Lecture on Dark Matter at UC Berkeley
MACHO Project Home Page
NGC 5764 rotation curve from U Alabama
Non-thermal Relics as Dark Matter (Axions)
Paper in Nature against cold DM
A paper from the university of Washington.
There are many others at this site.
Paper: limits of Cold DM, from UWashington
DAMPED LYMAN-ALPHA AND LYMAN LIMIT ABSORBERS IN THE COLD DARK MATTER MODEL
Rotation curves of galaxies - from NCSA
Dark matter revealed by rotation curves. Picture and graph for Andromeda galaxy.
Rotation velocity in orbit - anim. from Dursi
A simple animation of circular planetary orbit with variable parameters
Search for Dark Matter from Hubble (NASA)
Shape of the Cosmos - from NCSA
from NCSA/Cyberia
The Nature of the Dark Matter

Einstein Online - all the links
Encyclopedia of Cosmology--I
General relativity from the History of Math
Hubble telescope - STScI/HST
Inflation for Beginners
Infoseek : Hawking, Stephen
Large Scale Structure References
MPA Cosmology Group home page
NSSDC Photo Gallery
NASA's National Space Science Data Center offers lots of pictures
OAR Cosmology home page
Ripples at the Edge of the Universe

Strings and superstrings

M-theory and D-branes from UCSB
Most recent advances (1998)
The Second Superstring Revolution
Superstrings! String Theory Links
Superstrings! Introduction from UCSB

The Surface of Mars

http://physics7.berkele...ectures/IDS%283b%29.pdf
http://physics7.berkele...sics24/astro_links.html