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THEY WERE, BY FAR, THE LARGEST and most distant objects that scientists had ever detected: a swath of gargantuan cosmic clouds some 15 billion light-years from earth. But even more important, it was the farthest that scientists had ever been able to peer into the past, for what they were seeing were the patterns and structures that existed 15 billion years ago. That was just about the moment -- or more precisely, an infinitesimal 300,000 years after the moment -- that the universe was born. What the researchers found was at once both amazing and expected: NASA'S Cosmic Background...
...first evidence of this scenario was established in 1964, when astronomers discovered the cosmic microwave background, the original radiation from the Big Bang. The second part, though, was much trickier. In order for gravity to make galaxies out of atoms, it needed something to work with -- some chunks of space in which the atoms were closer together, a region of greater than average density, so that they could draw surrounding matter in. The excess densities need not have been very large, but they had to be there if matter was to congeal. And if they were present, they should...
...though," I remind them, "and choose a fund with low annual expenses and no sales fee.) But are you sure now is the time to jump in? Now, when stocks are more expensive than they have ever been in the history of the world?" (I allow myself a certain cosmic license here, for effect.) "Isn't the concept to buy low?" I ask. "And to sell high...
...snapped to attention, my fantasy of the hazy Eastern landscape shattering into a million cosmic pieces. Marketing strategies...
Larry and Steve, however, were pleased by our session, and informed us that our collective meditation had "cleared out the room. "I'm not sure exactly what they meant by that, but it seemed very cosmic...