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What everyone misunderstands about the Universe

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Origins of Cosmology

CNN's John Sutter talks about how cosmologists have always gotten it all wrong. He says Copernicus preserved epicycles for a different reason, which was that he thought he was still kind of in the zone of perfection. The main problem with epicycles is just that they don't actually exist, writes Sutter. "Old theories die hard because like the old theory wouldn't have been there"

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