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Cosmology W13 - Physics Department, UCSB

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Some epistemological issues <br />

• The subject of the discipline is unique: we only have one <br />

Universe, we cannot replicate/alter/reproduce our “sample” <br />

• We can only do experiments and measurements from one <br />

specific point in ^me and space <br />

• Yet we would like to construct a scien^fic theory that <br />

describes the universe everywhere and at all ^mes.

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