This book provides an updated understanding of the progress and current problems in the interplay between fundamental physics, astrophysics and cosmology.
Cosmological electroweak phase transition, M. Gleiser and E.W. Kolb; gravitatonal repulsion causes the expansion of the universe, D. Lynden-Bell; status of the inflationary scenario after detection of cosmic microwave background anisotropy, D.S. Salopek; experimentally testing the Big Bang, D.N. Schramm; a non-singular universe?, R.H. Brandenberger; the small scale anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation - primary fluctuations and secondary fluctuations, R.B. Partridge; COBE DMR results - cosmic background anisotropies, G.F. Smoot; spectral measurements of the cosmic microwave background, A.I. Kogut; comparison between COBE preliminary results and ULISSE observations, B. Melchiorri and F. Melchiorri; light, gravity and large scale structure (D. Lynden-Bell; the large scale structure of the universe, C.S. Frenk; topological defect models of structure formation after the COBE discovery of CMB anisotropies, R.H. Brandenberger; laser interferometric gravitational wave detectors, K. Danzmann; the internal constitution of black holes, W. Israel; neutrinos as fundamental probes, P. Ramond; high-energy neutrino astrophysics, M.M. Shapiro; observations of gamma-ray bursts by the BATSE experiment on the Compton Observatory, G.J. Fishman; A. survey of results from the first year of EGRET operation, R.C. Hartman and J.F. Ormes. (Part contents.)
