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George Smoot on Dark Matter, Cosmology and Gravitational Lensing

Closer To Truth by Closer To Truth

Sep 9, 202651:06Education

How can we measure the universe—and determine what it is made of? Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist George Smoot joins Robert Lawrence Kuhn to explore precision cosmology, from measurements of the cosmic microwave backg...

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