1. The Journey Ahead
2. Denizens of the Universe
3. Overall Cosmic Properties
4. The Stuff of the Universe
5. The Sweep of Cosmic History
6. Measuring Distances
7. Expansion and Age
8. Distances Appearances, and Horizons
9. Dark Matter and Dark Energy
10. Cosmic Geometry: Triangles in the Sky
11. Cosmic Expansion: Keeping Track of Energy
12. Cosmic Acceleration: Falling Outward
13. The Cosmic Microwave Background
14. Conditions during the First Million Years
15. Primordial Sound: Big Bang Acoustics
16. Using Sound as Cosmic Diagnostic
17. Primordial Roughness: Seeding Structure
18. The Dark Age: From Sound to the First Stars
19. Infant Galaxies
20. From Child to Maturity: Galaxy Evolution
21. Giant Black Holes - Construction and Carnage
22. The Galaxy Web - A Relic of Primordial Sound
23. Atom Factories - Stellar Interiors
24. Understanding Element Abundances
25. Light Elements Made in the Big Bang
26. Putting It Together: The Concordance Model
27. Physics at Ultrahigh Temperatures
28. Back to a Microsecond: The Particle Cascade
29. Back to the GUT: Matter and Forces Emerge
30. Puzzling Problems Remain
31. Inflation Provides the Solution
32. The Quantum Origin of All Structure
33. Inflation's Stunning Creativity
34. Fine Tuning and Anthropic Arguments
35. What's Next for Cosmology?
36. A Comprehensible Universe?
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