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At Serious Play 2008, astrophysicist, cosmologist and Nobel Prize winner George Smoot showed stunning new images from deep-space surveys, and explained how these helped scientists to gain better understanding of the way the universe got built. Smoot focuses on the cosmic microwave background radiation – the ‘afterglow’ of the Big Bang. In his research, he uses data collected from satellites such as COBE and WMAP to probe the shape of the universe. In 1992, Smoot and his team at the University of California at Berkeley have discovered that the universe, which was previously thought to be smooth and uniform at the largest scale, is, in fact, anisotropic – varied and lumpy. |
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