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The Big Bang, modern cosmology and the fate of the Universe: impacts upon culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2011

Lawrence M. Krauss
Lawrence M. Krauss*
Affiliation:
School of Earth and Space Exploration and Department of Physics, Arizona State University, PO Box 871404, Tempe AZ 85287-1404, USA email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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Cosmological discoveries over the past century have completely changed our picture of our place in the universe. New observations have a realistic chance of probing nature on heretofore unimaginable scales, and as a result are changing the nature of fundamental science. Perhaps no other domain of science has an equal capacity to completely change our perspective of the world in which we live.

Keywords

Big BangCosmologyCulture
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 5 , Symposium S260: The Role of Astronomy in Society and Culture , January 2009 , pp. 33 - 38
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2011

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