This sounds interesting. I hope to get to to his inaugural lecture as found Richard’s Auckland Skeptics in the Pub cosmology talk (October 2011) and the discussion after really interesting. Although my Physics education ended at High School, so probably won’t understand much, i still enjoy learning what I can. The importance of being wrong: the Big Bang and precision cosmology Inaugural lecture by Professor Richard Easther Department of Physics A generation ago, “precision cosmology” was an oxymoron. Since then, advances in observational astrophysics let us measure global properties of the universe -- age, expansion rate, composition, temperature, smoothness --...
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