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Has Cosmology Been Solved?

Posted by kdawson on from the more-concensus-than-debate dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In 1998, Dr. Michael Turner published a famous paper titled 'Cosmology Solved? Quite Possibly!' where he outlined seven major issues cosmologists should address in the following ten years. Nine years later, he revisits the list in an interview with the Slackerpedia Galactica podcast. He summarizes progress on each issue, adds some new goals for the next ten years, and even suggests that cosmology is now more interesting than science fiction."

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  1. Heathen by benhocking · · Score: 3, Informative

    God created the world in 6 days. He rested on the 7th. (What? You think it was easy?!?)

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  2. Confused much? by benhocking · · Score: 2, Informative

    So, what was Gutenberg printing in 1454 if the Bible was only constructed 140 years ago? The Synod of Hippo in 393 CE is when the the New Testament became canon. The gospels and letters that make up that canon are generally thought to be written in the 1st and 2nd centuries.

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  3. Re:God's Image by Lady+Jazzica · · Score: 2, Informative

    Right. For anyone interested, St. Thomas Aquinas wrote about this in the Summa Theologica (Ia, q. 93).

  4. In reply to your sig by mykdavies · · Score: 2, Informative

    Who the f*** decided that sentences on the Internet shall no longer be formatted with two spaces after a period?! Have you read this? http://webword.com/reports/period.html

    When you get to the end, the implication is that two spaces after a full stop began to become less common about a hundred years ago, with the invention of the Linotype machine!
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