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The Globe and Mail: Toronto astrophysicists pretty much figured out origins of universe
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Approximately 13.7 billion years ago – give or take an insignificant 260 million years – the piping hot primordial jambalaya of the original universe began to expand. Physicists now agree we shouldn't have called it the Big Bang. The Big Wheeze would have been more accurate. It happened everywhere at once.
About 13.7 billion years later – in layman's terms, a few weekends ago – 180 of the world's top theoretical astrophysicists gathered at the University of Toronto to congratulate each other on figuring out that number.
Say those words: theoretical astrophysicist. It may not sound like a real job. But they were celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics.
Most Canadians don't know it, but CITA is one of the world's crack centres for theoretical astrophysics, the equal of Stanford, Cal Tech, Cambridge University or Princeton.
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Published: June 04, 2010
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