Science Confronts the Ultimate Question

One theory claims cosmos had no beginning or creator, but many researchers disagree

By Kim A. McDonald

George F. Smoot, an astrophysicist at the University of California at Berkeley, made a startling announcement last spring. Speaking at a news conference, he said his research team had produced a map of the universe as it existed 300,000 years after the moment of creation....

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