Rocky Kolb, “A Universe of Particles: Cosmological Reflections” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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The Transition From the Observational to the Data Driven Cosmology
In 19 79, i would say, well, o cosmologybbut don'timima, cosmologist. But 15, certainly 20 years later, it was protten. People word. Sa, how can we hire cosmologists? O know what? What can we do? Any wrate, sir, i cut you off. Co, you were talking about the standard cosmological model and its correspondence with data,. The wealth of dat i we havei it staggers me. I now sometimes just shake my head. It's a remarkable transition, a breathtakingly rapid transition, from marginal to respectable.
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