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Originally Posted by higginsdj
I have to chuckle somewhat when I see title's like 'Precision Cosmology'. That sounds like an oxymoron to me given that the field is based solely on theory built on top of other theory and almost no observational evidence.....
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Well, there is observational evidence. However, some is still a bone of contention and not everyone agrees on all the salient points. With some things though, it's pretty iffy and some of the theory isn't tied down as well as it could or should be. Precision Cosmology, though, I think is a bad choice of words. However, when you're working on the cutting edge of knowledge, you can expect things to not be so rock solid because it's changing all the time.