What are the prerequisites for cosmology?

[johntitor]

if someone could tell me the math and science prerequisites then that would be pretty cool, also some books to read once I have met those prerequisites.

 

[COLGeek]

Are you seeking reading materials or prepping for a course? Please clarify.

 

[johntitor]

Are you seeking reading materials or prepping for a course? Please clarify.

Uhm I dont think either, I'm more asking what branches of science and level of math I need for cosmology.

 

[marcin]

Course Catalogue | The Theoretical Minimum

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The Theoretical Minimum - Wikipedia

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Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory
General Relativity
Cosmology

 

[johntitor]

Course Catalogue | The Theoretical Minimum

theoreticalminimum.com

The Theoretical Minimum - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory
General Relativity
Cosmology

thank you.

 

[COLGeek]

Uhm I dont think either, I'm more asking what branches of science and level of math I need for cosmology.

For college? If so, look at the college's course catalog or program website. There you should find prerequisite info.

Start here (as an example): https://cse.umn.edu/mifa/undergrad

And another: https://physics.northwestern.edu/undergraduate/courses/catalog.html

 

[Classical Motion]

I would recommend 2 semesters of wet chemistry for any scientific study or knowledge. Not just for the chemistry knowledge, but for the academic discipline of study and measurement. After 2, some want more. Some will never touch it again.

Chemistry is not only the best organizing and bean counting system ever, the investigating logic concepts can be applied to many other fields of study. It’s sorta a way of thinking. A logic pattern.

Chemistry will help you in any field of study. Even thought I disagree with their deep fundamentals. Chemistry is a sure thing.

Just from my experience. Doesn’t work for all. Some can’t get into it. But it’s neat.

 

[promytius]

Internet search 1 second: "Your qualification should be in a physics-, mathematics- or astronomy-based subject, or a subject with significant mathematical or physical content, and include modules in calculus, differential equations, mechanics, electrodynamics and quantum mechanics."

 

[marcin]

Chemistry will help you in any field of study. Even thought I disagree with their deep fundamentals. Chemistry is a sure thing.

Your disagreement is most interesting to me. What are these deep fundamentals that you disagree with?

 

[promytius]

If you become a chemist, you will have to put up with these and more:
Don’t trust atoms, they make up everything.

Did you know that you can cool yourself to -273.15˚C and still be 0k?

H2O is water and H2O2 is hydrogen peroxide. What is H2O4?
Drinking.

Have you heard the one about a chemist who was reading a book about helium?
He just couldn’t put it down.

How about the chemical workers … are they unionized?

Did you know that oxygen went for a second date with potassium?
How did it go?
It went OK2!

Why do chemists like nitrates so much?
They’re cheaper than day rates.

...apologies...

 

[Classical Motion]

I think the measurements of the periodic table can be explained with just an electron and a proton.

I believe our current theories of light, mass, energy, gravity, time and space...... to be bogus big time.

But other than that science is pretty cool.

 

[marcin]

...apologies...

The first chemist's name was AL.

 

[Classical Motion]

Chemistries first goal was not knowledge. It was gold.

 

[Helio]

Uhm I dont think either, I'm more asking what branches of science and level of math I need for cosmology.

General Relativity involves math even Einstein could not figure out on his own. It's very difficult.

The history behind today's modern BBT is wonderful to study. So, you might begin with understanding general cosmology by reading non-math books such as...

1)Big Bang; Simon Singh

2) Discovering the Expanding Universe; Harry Nussbaumer and Lydia Bieri

3) The Day We Found The Universe: Marcia Bartusiak (2009)

4) At The Edge of Time – Dan Hooper (CERN) 2019

5) Cosmology’s Century -- P. J.E. Peebles 2022

The last one (5) is loaded with math snippets, as well as offers some insights into the early ideas. Peebles is a famous physicist and cosmologist.

 

[Gibsense]

if someone could tell me the math and science prerequisites then that would be pretty cool, also some books to read once I have met those prerequisites.

Prerequisites: Insatiable Curiosity about Everything + imaginative challenge as you read
"Spacetime Physics" Taylor & Wheeler.