There's a Hole in Bottom of the Universe!
| Abstract | It’s perhaps natural to think that our universe should be more or less the same in all directions, once we average out the lumpiness of stars, galaxies, galactic clusters, superclusters, etc. However, there’s a growing body of evidence suggesting that this presumption is not true. There is now a strong suspicion that our universe may contain a gaping “hole” located in the constellation Eridanus. This all started several years ago with the observation that there was a pronounced “Cold Spot” in the data from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) that produced space-based measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) left behind about 400,000 years after the Big Bang | |||||||||
| Keywords | No keywords specified (fix it) | |||||||||
| Categories | ||||||||||
| Options |
|
|||||||||
Download options| PhilPapers Archive |
Upload a copy of this paper Check publisher's policy on self-archival Papers currently archived: 5,664 |
| External links |
  Try with proxy. |
| Through your library | Only published papers are available at libraries |
Similar books and articlesFrank J. Tipler (1984). How to Construct a Falsifiable Theory in Which the Universe Came Into Being Several Thousand Years Ago. PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1984:873 - 902.
Quentin Smith (1997). Simplicity and Why the Universe Exists. Philosophy 72 (279):125-.
Analytics
Monthly downloads |
Added to index2009-01-28Total downloads8 ( #122,991 of 549,010 )Recent downloads (6 months)1 ( #63,261 of 549,010 )How can I increase my downloads? |
My notes
Discussion
