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تسجيل مستخدم جديدThe Cosmological Tests
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P. J. E. Peebles
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Recent observational advances have considerably improved the cosmological tests, adding to the lines of evidence, and showing that some issues under discussion just a few years ago may now be considered resolved or irrelevant. Other issues remain, however, and await resolution before the great program of testing the relativistic Friedmann-Lemaitre model, that commenced in the 1930s, may at last be considered complete.
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