One of the things I love about cosmology is how much it requires thinking creatively, trying to approach the physics of the universe from a totally new direction. This doesn’t mean fully unconstrained flights of fancy. You can’t just randomly make stuff up. But what you can (and must) do is constantly find new ways to look at problems to wring a little more insight out of whatever data the universe has to offer. This kind of creative thinking becomes especially important when we’re faced with a conundrum like “How do we improve on Concordance Cosmology or the Standard Model?” Everything we’ve
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