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11 key questions about the universe

18 Jan 2001

A panel of US physicists and astronomers has identified a list of eleven fundamental questions about the nature of the universe that will require the combined skills of particle physicists and astrophysicists to answer. The questions are in "From quarks to the cosmos", the first report from the committee on the physics of the universe set up by the National Academy of Sciences.

The eleven questions are: * What is dark matter? * What are the masses of the neutrinos, and

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