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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. the day that any field of scientific inquiry by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Insightful

    is "solved," is the day that field of inquiry ceases to be science, and BECOMES science fiction

    science is a never ending inquiry into the unknown. there will always be the unknown

    however, some of the higher level stuff of cosmology strikes me as a little too far out there to be called completely science. it is in many ways an intersection of philosophy, and math, and astronomy, and even religion

    i think of cosmology as a sort of soft science, like sociology

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    1. Re:the day that any field of scientific inquiry by GMFTatsujin · · Score: 5, Insightful

      science is a never ending inquiry into the unknown. there will always be the unknown

      *ahem.* We don't actually know that.

      (/self ducks.)