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George Smoot: The design of the universe

http://www.ted.com At Serious Play 2008, astrophysicist George Smoot shows stunning new images from deep-space surveys, and prods us to ponder how the cosmos -- with its giant webs of dark matter a...  
 
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pastohh (18 hours ago) Show Hide
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I think it is because thats the point of observation i.e from earth.
ChocolateCheeseCrew (1 day ago) Show Hide
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Seriously ( This might sound stupid to cosmologists) why do you think that our galaxy is the one in the center of the universe? I hear it so often in these Lectures, but i honestly can't believe it.
SeijiMutoEX (3 days ago) Show Hide
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I have that image he's working with, it''s like 700MB

It's awesome! Can't even fathom it!
theoriginalKland (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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Not true, look up Quantum mechanics.
h2omanz (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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i know all about matrix mechanics and wave mechanics
not sure what your response is referring to? proof of the universes' existence?
-best
allschoolreject (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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nicely said lol.
36squared (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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lol,I peer reviewed a paper describing the strong nuclear force with the conditions met by a schwartzschild black hole and the vacuum density within a proton and found the implications to account for this "elusive" dark matter problem. I'm workin on the "dark energy" problem now>> Holla love!
doctorjay1976 (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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100 billion galaxies, holy shit... just let that sink in
infinitenight2093 (6 days ago) Show Hide
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haha yeah 100 billion galaxies each with billions of stars and trillions of planets... WTF!
SongBirdJesusFreak (3 days ago) Show Hide
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@infinitenight2093
Yeah, and Earth is the only planet that can support life, LOL.

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