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Scientists said Wednesday the universe could be spherical and patched together like a soccer ball -- and it may not be infinite.
Jeffrey Weeks, a MacArthur Fellow based in Canton, New York, and researchers from the University of Paris and Observatory of Paris analyzed astronomical data which suggests the universe is finite and made of curved pentagons joined together into a ball.
In research reported in the science journal Nature on Wednesday, the scientists said data from NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotrophy Probe (WMAP), which maps background radiation left over from the Big Bang, is not consistent with an infinite universe. "Since antiquity, humans have wondered whether our universe is finite or infinite. Now, after more than two millennia of speculation, observational data might finally settle the ancient question," Weeks said.
In a commentary on the research, George Ellis of the University of Cape Town in South Africa, said if Weeks and his colleagues are correct we might indeed live in a small, closed universe.
I got the story from Yahoo! News. |
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 Fri Oct 10, 2003 3:38 am |
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well i don't understand, if the universe ia a sphere and enclosed, then what's outside of the sphere? I mean really?
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| Fri Oct 10, 2003 9:11 am |
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Pancakes. Lots and lots of pancakes.
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| Fri Oct 10, 2003 9:31 am |
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It's a parallel universe where the dog people live.
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| Fri Oct 10, 2003 11:56 am |
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thick of it like one of those ball sacks at recess in elementary school. We have the lopsided ball that none of the children want to play with (sorry, I mean dog people) so our sack doesn't get played with like it used to. The big bang actually was just a intense game of kickball.
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| Fri Oct 10, 2003 1:14 pm |
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Imagination  . No maybe just more universes. |
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| Fri Oct 10, 2003 1:36 pm |
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The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind . . .
Except in New Jersey, where what's blowing in the wind smells funny.
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| Sat Oct 11, 2003 12:27 pm |
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They are wrong!!
It involves Sandwich Theroy in which I reveal along with Bono in a post that is to long that no one will read. 
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| Tue Oct 14, 2003 5:39 pm |
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| Force-Attuned_Krogoth wrote: |
| Except in New Jersey, where what's blowing in the wind smells funny. |
...you get used to it fairly quickly...
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| Tue Oct 14, 2003 6:21 pm |
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| JJc14 wrote: |
| Force-Attuned_Krogoth wrote: |
| Except in New Jersey, where what's blowing in the wind smells funny. |
...you get used to it fairly quickly... |
Well, hydrogen sulfides do tend to deaden one's sense of smell . . .
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| Wed Oct 15, 2003 12:31 pm |
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You are all wrong. What happens is that the astronomical sphere will collide into a large planet causing a total meltdown of the whole solar system. Then in due time, the extromonious atmosphere will be polluted by the dust particles of that planet. And then pancakes will fall on us.  |
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| Wed Oct 22, 2003 5:01 pm |
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| ToonamiL wrote: |
| You are all wrong. What happens is that the astronomical sphere will collide into a large planet causing a total meltdown of the whole solar system. Then in due time, the extromonious atmosphere will be polluted by the dust particles of that planet. And then pancakes will fall on us. |
YOUR WRONG!!! IT WILL RAIN MUFFINS AND A SOLID MATTER FORM OF BINARY CODE!!
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| Wed Oct 22, 2003 6:26 pm |
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So The Minion sayeth, so shall it come to pass...
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| Wed Oct 22, 2003 7:11 pm |
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There must be something in the water down there in Las Vegas . . . and Rolla . . .
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| Wed Oct 22, 2003 7:41 pm |
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| counterparadox wrote: |
| There must be something in the water down there in Las Vegas . . . and Rolla . . . |
I think it's called "toilet sewage." I'm not sure, though... |
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| Thu Oct 23, 2003 3:54 am |
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