The Cambridge Cosmology Consequence

Cosmology is a beautiful thing; so is Stephen Hawking. He’s done a lot for cosmology, so much that he has a research centre at Cambridge named after him: The Stephen Hawking Centre for Theoretical Cosmology. The good thing about Cambridge is that they have an enormous amount of money. Their total financial endowment is in excess of £4.3 billion! With this money they make pretty websites...

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The Arxiv Repository

The function of a researcher is to write articles for big and expensive journals, such as Physical Review Letters. After this, the institute that paid for the research looks good and their respect goes up (like a gang in GTA). At least, that’s the hope anyway. In reality, the process is best summed up by the Mumford and Sons line:  “Crawl on my belly ‘til the sun goes down.” but perhaps...

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