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Article: 'Technology poses more questions than answers' about origin of universe.(Originated from EDITOR'S NOTE: For thousands of years, people have sought)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- December 20, 1995
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answers in myth, religion and science to these deep mysteries: When and why was the universe created? How did life on Earth begin? What was the origin of humankind? Are we alone in the vastness of space? This is the first of three articles exploring the latest scientific understanding of these ultimate questions.
By Robert S. Boyd
Knight-Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON _ Equipped with magnificent new tools _ space telescopes, exquisitely sensitive radiation detectors, supercomputers _ astronomers are rapidly pushing back the limits of knowledge about the origin of the universe.
Technology is transforming cosmology, the study of when, how and why ...