Just one irrefutable datum point

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Start date Mar 28, 2008
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Mar 28, 2008

wolram

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I think that is all cosmology needs, the efforts to find this point are stupendous but will we ever find it?

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Mar 29, 2008

Garth

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Could you say more?

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