  The great advances in the network of cosmological tests show that the
relativistic Big Bang theory is a good description of our expanding universe.
But the properties of nearby galaxies that can be observed in greatest detail
suggest a still better theory would more rapidly gather matter into galaxies
and groups of galaxies. This happens in theoretical ideas now under discussion.

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics;Astrophysics of Galaxies;General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology;High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;High Energy Physics - Theory