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cbayer

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17. I'm not so sure. It often seems that the more we discover, the more apparent

Reply to Zoeisright (Reply #16)

Mon May 13, 2013, 07:40 AM

May 2013

it becomes how little we know.

Cosmologists are having conversations that weren't even possible 50 years ago. Science Friday was great last week and had some focus on what we don't know.

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