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But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing—a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand.

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The question of "the beginning" is as inescapable for cosmologists as it is for theologians.

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Using the forces we now know, you can't make the universe we know now.

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What we have found is evidence for the birth of the universe.... It's like looking at God.

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Born: February 20, 1945
Died: September 18, 2025 (aged 80)
Bio: George Fitzgerald Smoot III was an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, Nobel laureate, and one of two contestants to win the US$1 million prize on 'Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?'.

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