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"It's basically a shortcut," explains Adrian Bayer a cosmologist at the Flatiron Institute and Princeton University, co-author of the study.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026
Niayesh Afshordi, a cosmologist, and Phil Halper, who hosts a YouTube channel on science, introduce dozens of alternative theories, some with tongue-twisting names.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
His case is in many ways similar to others with severe neuromotor disorders, such as British physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking, who was confined to a wheelchair and could only communicate through a voice synthesiser.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
Other similar videos of President John F. Kennedy, Queen Elizabeth II and physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking also circulated widely.
From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2025
Interestingly, the man who found the answer to that question was a cosmologist who heartily despised the Big Bang as a theory and coined the term "Big Bang" sarcastically, as a way of mocking it.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
