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Science 22 February 2002:
Vol. 295. no. 5559, pp. 1476 - 1477
DOI: 10.1126/science.1070253
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Perspectives

COSMOLOGY:
Tales of Singularities

G. W. Gibbons and E. P. S. Shellard

On the occasion of Stephen Hawking's 60th birthday, researchers gathered in Cambridge to discuss the past, present, and future of theoretical physics and cosmology. In their Perspective, Gibbons and Shellard report from the meeting with the latest news about the beginning of our universe and the properties of black holes.

The authors are at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0WA, UK. E-mail: G.W.Gibbons@damtp.cam.ac.uk and E.P.S.Shellard@damtp.cam.ac.uk

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