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Archive Home > 2008 > August > 29 > Pursuing a crucial cosmic number

Pursuing a crucial cosmic number

Astronomers are closing in on the oldest mysteries of the universe

By Dennis Overbye / The Bulletin
August 29, 2008

Hoping to understand why the universe seems to be coming apart at its seams, a young astronomer and his colleagues have embarked on one of the oldest quests in cosmology: to measure how fast the universe is growing, how big it is and how old it is.

That information is encoded in the value of an....

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