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May 3, 2001
“The theory has to be raked over by our colleagues.”
Burt Ovrut, professor of physics and one of the authors of a breakthrough
theory on the origin of the universe that brings the Big Bang theory into
question
(Arizona Republic, April 17)
Originally published on May 3, 2001
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