| Summary: | In this edition of the Guinness Book of Records we are not only recording the thousands of new records that have been set since our last edition, but also looking back at how records have changed in the 40 years since our first. It is fascinating to note how the advance of science has brought fresh understanding of our world. For instance the very first record in the first Guinness Book of Records said that the remotest known heavenly bodies were at a distance of some 1,000 million light years. Now we locate them at some 13,200 million light years away. Indeed, all of man's penetration into space has occurred during the life cycle of our book.
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