You would think that with all our technology, like the James Webb Space Telescope, we would know how big the Universe is. But we don’t.
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For decades, theorists have been cooking up “theories of everything” to explain our Universe. Are all of them completely off-track?
Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself.
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The amazing life of “Gudrid the Far-Traveled” was unjustly overshadowed by her in-laws, Erik the Red and Leif Erikson.
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Unexpected images of galaxies from the James Webb Space Telescope do not disprove the Big Bang. There are other likelier explanations.