1. For this module, please look through the "lecture" notes for "The Celestial Sphere" and "Celestial Navigation". These notes contain the material, in condensed form, that I will expect you to become ...

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Physicists have been busy exploring how our universe might emerge like a hologram out of a two-dimensional sheet. New clues have come from the symmetries found on an infinitely distant “celestial ...