Exploring the Large-Scale Nature of the Universe with James Peebles

The evidence is that the universe is close to uniform; it has no observable center or edges; and that it is expanding. Cosmologist James Peebles, professor emeritus at Princeton University explores the histories of these ideas and the present state of the evidence for their reliability. [2/2007] [Show ID: 12004]
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