"If technology continues to improve as it has since the turn of this century, then we would have a three-D map of the visible universe by 2100. In the next century, people will answer questions of origin. Things now outside the realm of experimental science will be things people will think about broadly. How do galaxies form? We'll see them doing it." Professor of Astronomy
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