A brief history of the universe L. Sriramkumar Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad. 16-01-08 Abstract After a pictorial survey of the universe and an outline of the observational reasons behind our empirical understanding of its contents, I present a brief history of universe -- from the generation of perturbations during inflation, through nucleosynthesis and decoupling, to the formation of large scale structures.
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