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Published online 30 October 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news021028-4

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No time like the present

Intelligent life might be more likely in a Universe in flux.

Ever since Copernicus put the Sun, rather than Earth, at the centre of the Universe, scientists and philosophers have suspected that there's nothing special about our cosmic time and place. But two physicists now suggest otherwise.

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