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ASTROPHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY - CERN

1. GENERAL INTRODUCTION Cosmology (from the Greek: kosmos, universe, world, order, and logos, word, theory) is probably the most ancient body of knowledge, dating from as far back as the predictions of seasons by early civiliza-tions. Yet, until recently, we could only answer to some of its more basic questions with an order of mag-nitude estimate.

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