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Contents
14.7 Can Neutrino Be Sensitive to Magnetic Forces: The
Neutrino Magnetic Moment
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14.8 What Oscillation Experiments Do Not Tell Us
114
Part III
117
15 Mendeleev’s Periodic Table
119
16 A Brief Overview of the Big Bang Theory of the Universe
123
16.1 Big Bang Theory vs. Steady State Theory
123
16.2 Big Bang Theory Wins
125
16.3 Major Events in the Universe’s Past
126
17 The Inflationary Universe
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17.1 Inflation: One Beginning Before Another Beginning
129
17.2 Beginning of the Hubble Era after Inflation
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18 From Quarks to Protons and Neutrons and Then to
Helium and Beryllium and the Dance of Atoms
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18.1 Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
135
18.2 Formation of Galaxies
138
18.3 Cosmic Microwave and Neutrino Backgrounds
138
19 Stars as the Cooking Pots for Heavy Nuclei
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19.1 Stellar Nucleosynthesis
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19.2 Still Heavier Elements
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20 Neutrino Mass Hints at Mirror Symmetry in Nature
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20.1 Back to Symmetries
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20.2 Mirror Symmetry and Weak Force
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20.3 Mirror Symmetry and Neutrinos
150
20.4 Mass and Helicity
151
20.5 Mirror Reflection and Neutrino States and Nature of
Weak Force
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