Two influential cosmologists from Princeton and Cambridge have developed a new theory of the universe of the infinite loop variety. The article is short on details, but this quote is precious:
"The history of cosmology is the history of us being completely wrong," he told the BBC. "I mean, cosmology is the hardest of all sciences; we sit on this tiny planet in the middle of this vast Universe, we can't go anywhere and do any experiments - all we can do is pick up the light that happens to fall on us and deduce some things about the Universe."
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