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Is Cosmology Really a Science?

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The History of the Universe

When did human beings get just some sense of the size of the universe? The Big Bang is very, I mean really, you see now in our lifetime. No, it was 13.7 billion years ago. And we lived in quite a parochial universe, didn't we? When was the point where people started to go, this whole thing is a lot bigger than we imagined? I think it's when they started introducing chocolate bars.

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