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What does an Expanding Universe Mean?

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The expanding universe is humanity's monumental discovery. Beginning with something infinitesimally small, the universe has become something majestically large. How could this happen? What could this mean?

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Alan Guth

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Paul Steinhardt

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Saul Perlmutter

Saul Perlmutter works on supernova, cosmological physics, data science - universe...

George Ellis

George Ellis works on cosmology, gravitation, metaphysics (possibility spaces), ethics

Andrei Linde

Andrei Linde pioneered the inflationary universe, including eternal inflation and the...

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