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The European summit next week in Brussels is billed as critical, and the participants say they will not budge on the urgent questions. They should talk less about food and more about trade.
Professor Thomas Gold has stood the conventional view of the origin of the Solar System on its head and seems certain to provoke astrophysicists to a wave of recalculation, even observation.
