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George Smoot sur l'architecture de l'univers

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Serious Play 2008

• May 2008

A la conférence 'Serious Play' 2008, l'astrophysicien George Smoot nous montre de nouvelles images étourdissantes issues d'études de l'espace lointain, et nous enjoint à considérer comment le cosmos - avec ces toiles d'araignées géantes de matière sombre et de vides béants mystérieux - s'est développé de cette façon.

A la conférence 'Serious Play' 2008, l'astrophysicien George Smoot nous montre de nouvelles images étourdissantes issues d'études de l'espace lointain, et nous enjoint à considérer comment le cosmos - avec ces toiles d'araignées géantes de matière sombre et de vides béants mystérieux - s'est développé de cette façon.

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George Smoot

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Astrophysicist, cosmologist and Nobel Prize winner George Smoot studies the cosmic microwave background radiation -- the afterglow of the Big Bang. His pioneering research into deep space and time is uncovering the structure of the universe itself.

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