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Computing crosses cosmology and makes the case for agnosticism.

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            cover image Communications of the ACM
            Communications of the ACM  Volume 58, Issue 6
            June 2015
            94 pages
            ISSN:0001-0782
            EISSN:1557-7317
            DOI:10.1145/2783419
            • Editor:
            • Moshe Y. Vardi
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