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A Sober Assessment of Cosmology at the New Millennium

Author(s) -

Michael S. Turner

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

publications of the astronomical society of the pacific

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.294

H-Index - 172

eISSN - 1538-3873

pISSN - 0004-6280

DOI - 10.1086/320800

Subject(s) - cosmology , irrational number , nothing , bust , physics , astronomy , astrophysics , boom , theoretical physics , philosophy , epistemology , geology , mathematics , oceanography , geometry

Cosmology is the dot com of the sciences. Boom or bust. It is about nothingless than the origin and evolution of the Universe, the all of everything. Itis the boldest of enterprises and not for the fainthearted. Cosmologists arethe flyboys of astrophysics, and they often live up to all that image conjuresup. It is hardly surprising then that words written about cosmology are rarelybalanced. They verve to one extreme or the other. .... Once or twice, I haveprobably been guilty of irrational exuberance when it comes to cosmology.Comment: 9 pages LaTeX. Invited Millennium Essay. To be published in the June issue of PAS

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