Cosmology in Crisis?

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4-13-2007 5:17 PM

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What is it with cosmology these days?  On the one hand, astronomers seem more confident than
ever.  They speak of this as the era of “precision cosmology,” when the only task
remaining seems to be refining the decimal points; e.g., the first refinements of the cosmic microwave
background (CMB) won John Mather and George Smoot a Nobel Prize this year.  On the other hand, there have been
disturbing comments from respectable quarters hinting that if a complete collapse is not imminent,
at least major rethinking is going on.  Some of the most fundamental evidences for and assumptions
behind the “standard model,” presented as fact in popular publications and planetarium shows,
are being questioned.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C4AD4951-5611-49C0-863C-7E3B4800328F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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