The Big Bang from Coursera

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Yes another free course and this ones only 4 weeks. looks intersting, well actually already jioned.

https://www.coursera.org/course/bigbang

[bomberbaz]

Feel I should add to this as I think it has more to offer than my cursory thread title implies, here is the opening details from the course:

From the Big Bang to Dark Energy

This course will cover various topics on the discoveries about how the Universe evolved in 13.7 billion years since the Big Bang.

We have learned a lot recently about how the Universe evolved in 13.7 billion years since the Big Bang. More than 80% of matter in the Universe is mysterious Dark Matter, which made stars and galaxies to form. The newly discovered Higgs-boson became frozen into the Universe a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang and brought order to the Universe. Yet we still do not know how ordinary matter (atoms) survived against total annihilation by Anti-Matter. The expansion of the Universe started acceleration about 7 billion years ago and the Universe is being ripped apart. The culprit is Dark Energy, a mysterious energy multiplying in vacuum. I will present evidence behind these startling discoveries and discuss what we may learn in the near future