“Accelerating” into Cosmology
•Extragalactic Astrophysicists try to explain the detailed features and physics of galaxies, clusters of galaxies, AGN, etc.
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•Cosmologists try to explain how large-scale structures formed in an expanding universe from initial density perturbations present in the early universe.  Also, what must those initial conditions be?  What sets them?
–How does one start?
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