The Stephen Hawking Centre for Theoretical Cosmology.
The good thing about Cambridge is that they have an enormous amount of money. Their total financial endowment is in excess of £4.3 billion! With this money they make pretty websites to exemplify their research and knowledge. The CTC website is a beautiful example of this.
On the CTC website there is the outreach pages, complete with really good explanations and diagrams of all manner of cosmology. The level of content is Bones, but it can also be Skull with a good use of their glossary.
Here’s the section headers for the pages:
- The Big Bang
- Galaxies
- The Cosmic Sky
- The Early Universe
- Quantum Origins
- Black Holes
My personal favourite is the early universe section as it has a lot on string theory. However, the big bang section has a really good page called “A History of Ideas”, which gives little summaries of the turning points in cosmology, such as discovering the cosmic microwave background.
It’s actually one of the most pleasing websites to browse that’s on the muon Academy blog. With a bit of digging, you may uncover some decent links too. To finish on, here’s the most amusing graph on the CTC website (if you have an inner child):
http://www.ctc.cam.ac.uk/outreach/origins_of_the_universe.php
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