ORIGIN OF THE ORIGIN: THE BIG BANG, SPECULATION, AND …

Verifiable theories that explain a variety of phenomena in a unified way—intellectual beauty in Coleridge’s sense—are the proper end of real science. 1 Figure 2: "The dots run away from one another when the rubber balloon is expanding," Gamow’s own drawing of a 2-dimensional analog of an expanding 3-dimensional universe. ................
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