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Nature 408, 916-917 (21 December 2000) | doi:10.1038/35050182
Astronomy: The Big Bang is bang on
John Bahcall
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Abstract
Did the Universe really start in a hot Big Bang? New measurements of the temperature of the Universe when it was young provide exciting confirmation that it was indeed hotter in the past.
The Universe is filled with unimagined things of great beauty and enormous significance, just waiting to be discovered. On page 931 of this issue, for example, Srianand, Petitjean and Ledoux1 report the discovery of a rare set of features (absorption lines) in the light from a distant quasar.
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