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In the past 50 years, cosmology has gone from a field known for the errors being in the exponents to a precision science. The transformation—powered by ideas, technology, a paradigm shift, and culture change—has revolutionized our understanding of the Universe, with the Lambda cold dark matter (ΛCDM) paradigm as its crowning achievement. I chronicle the journey of precision cosmology and finish with thoughts about the next cosmological paradigm.
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