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The Future of Astronomy and Physical Cosmology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2013

P. James E. Peebles
P. James E. Peebles*
Affiliation:
Joseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. Email: pjep@princeton.edu
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Abstract

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Astronomy and cosmology have a substantial observational and theoretical basis, but our standard model still depends on some working assumptions. I comment on the nature of the issues behind these assumptions, the guidance we might find from past resolutions of such issues, and the models we might consider for the future of research in this subject.

Keywords

historyphilosophysociology of astronomy
Type
Research Article
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 21 , Special Issue 4: Structure and Dynamics in the Local Universe , 2004 , pp. 385 - 389
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 2004

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