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Nature 429, 27 (6 May 2004) | doi:10.1038/429027a
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Abstract
Dark matter and dark energy: they might be more abundant than the stuff we are made of, but are they any more interesting?
Humans seem to be extremely unimportant in the grand scheme of the Universe. This insight is often associated with Copernicus, who suggested (although not for the first time) that the Earth was not the centre of the Solar System.
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