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A truly brief history of time: the entire story of our Universe from Creation to Doomsday. New technologies, new telescopes, even new advances in particle physics have all played their part in unraveling the story of the universe, but there are still huge blanks to be filled in. Thanks to particle accelerators, we know more about the first few seconds of the Universe than about the following half-billion years, but there is still so much more to learn.

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This event was on Fri, 01 Mar 1996

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Professor Heather Couper

Professor of Astronomy

Heather Couper was the Gresham Professor of Astronomy between 1993 and 1996.

After studying Astrophysics at Oxford University, Professor Couper ran the Greenwich Planetarium, and...

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