CMB Anomalies

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CMB anomaliesYoung1 Bee does it again, this time with an excellent post entitled “Anomalous Alignments in the Cosmic Microwave Background”. You’ve heard a huge amount about the success of modern precision cosmology, driven so muchn in recent times by the extraordinary data from the Cosmic Microwave Background measured by experiments such as WMAP. Well, there are some very interesting anomalies in the CMB data that have yet to be properly understood, and Bee discusses them in her post. I’ll do no more than send you over there to read it and join in the discussion if you wish. Nothing wrong with a bit of Cosmology conversation during the holidays.

-cvj

1Just trying to help, in case you’re wondering. See the first paragraphs of her post. 🙂

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One Response to CMB Anomalies

  1. Plato says:
    December 27, 2006 at 12:12 pm

    Bernhard Riemann once claimed: “The value of non-Euclidean geometry lies in its ability to liberate us from preconceived ideas in preparation for the time when exploration of physical laws might demand some geometry other than the Euclidean.” His prophesy was realized later with Einstein’s general theory of relativity. It is futile to expect one “correct geometry” as is evident in the dispute as to whether elliptical, Euclidean or hyperbolic geometry is the “best” model for our universe. Henri Poincaré, in Science and Hypothesis (New York: Dover, 1952, pp. 49-50) expressed it this way.

    The interesting thing about science coming at it from the outside is looking for experiments that might help us see the universe in ways we might not of before.

    “Simple experiments” by analogy that lead us further to see the early universe in diverse ways?