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Robert Lea

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Forget supercomputers scientists say a laptop could map the universe in minutes - The Untold Story

Two "fans" representing DESI observations above and below the plane of the Milky Way.

As you might imagine, mapping the universe on the largest of scales and tracing threads of the cosmic web is no mean feat.

To do so, you'd need to take observational evidence and combine it with theoretical models such as the Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale Structure (EFTofLSS). Only then would you be on the road to developing a statistical map of the universe's 3D skeleton. This is a task way beyond human minds alone, requiring a vast amount of computing time — and that's very valuable time, especially as catalogues of astronomical data continue to grow exponentially.

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