Universe might be horn-shaped

Post #157,206 by admin 5/27/04 11:07:07 AM Reply	Universe might be horn-shaped [link\|http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/27/universe_picard_topology/\|http://www.theregist..._picard_topology/] In the afterglow of the big bang, there is a pattern of hot and cold spots. However, recent maps of that region of space made with data from Nasa's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, show that none is larger than about 60 degrees across. Frank Steiner, the lead researcher, says that a finite, horn shaped universe fits this observation: there just isn't room back there for the blobs to be any bigger. The curve of the Picard horn, described as pringle-like, would also explain why these background blobs are elliptical, rather than circular. Observations of circles on the sky would be stretched into ellipses by the curve of the universe. Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #157,216 by ChrisR 5/27/04 12:37:50 PM Reply	And all this time I thought it was shaped like... ...a Giant Rotating Rod. Now my cosmology is all in shambles.
Post #157,808 by tablizer 5/31/04 12:08:55 AM Reply	Where's that Vigina Nebula link? ________________ oop.ismad.com
Post #157,218 by boxley 5/27/04 12:44:28 PM Reply	cornucopia wuz right! Time for Lord Stanley to get a Tan questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #157,277 by lincoln 5/27/04 4:27:50 PM Reply	This makes it sound more like a saddle shape, which I heard it being described a few decades ago: The curve of the Picard horn, described as pringle-like lincoln "Windows XP has so many holes in its security that any reasonable user will conclude it was designed by the same German officer who created the prison compound in "Hogan's Heroes." - Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times [link\|mailto:bconnors@ev1.net\|contact me]
Post #157,283 by deSitter 5/27/04 4:57:09 PM Reply	I say it's a piano, a piano it is, aye -drl
Post #157,321 by Ashton 5/27/04 7:02:21 PM Reply	Modesty forbids my noting the once possession of the prototype for all that is Good: a Bach Stradivarius cornet. (Note too, the three examples of an er "disc-shaped" sub-world, an integral part of this Ark of the Coverlet) ..had I only Known! - why I could have passed the GNP of Scientology in half a parsec. Your God in B^flat
Post #157,584 by orion 5/29/04 4:01:23 PM Reply	Very interesting: Theoretically, you could fly out of the universe on one side of the bell and arrive back on the other. Like the Atari Game "Asteroids" move off one side of the screen and appear on the opposite side. Perhaps this horn is more like a loop? Lopsided on one side, but connected. Ouroboros shaped perhaps? [link\|http://abacus.best.vwh.net/oro/ouroboros2.html\|http://abacus.best.v...o/ouroboros2.html] [link\|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros\|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros] The larger part, the horn part that is larger, could be the head, the rest could be the body or tail. *"What's the use of saving life when you see what you do with it?" - Corbin Dallas "The Fifth Element"* [link\|http://www.xormad.com:4096/district268\|I am from District 268].

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