True Story of Modern Cosmology

Emilio Elizalde has been a professor at Barcelona University and visiting scholar at several world prestigious institutions. He is a recipient of two honorary professorships, and he is presently an emeritus research professor of the Spanish Higher Council for Scientific Research, having got four distinctions of merit in his years of service. Being a renowned specialist on zeta functions and their applications to quantum physics, he also works on theoretical cosmology and gravity theories.

• Introduction.- What is a Scientific Theory?.- The First Cosmological Revolution of the 20th Century.- The Theory of General Relativity and Its Main Solutions.- The Hubble-Lemaître Law and the Universe Expansion.- The Big Bang Theory.- Towards the Very Instant of Universe Creation.- The Second Cosmological Revolution of the 20th Century.- Conclusion.