Thursday, March 21, 2013

Planck shows almost perfect cosmos – plus axis of evil

Planck shows almost perfect cosmos – plus axis of evil: "The overall conclusion is that standard cosmology is an extremely good match to Planck data," said Efstathiou. "If I were an inflationary theorist I would be extremely happy."

...Planck reveals that one half of the universe has bigger variations than the other. Planck's detectors are over 10 times more sensitive and have about 2.5 times the angular resolution of WMAP's, giving cosmologists a much better look at this alignment. "We can be extremely confident that these anomalies are not caused by galactic emissions and not caused by instrumental effects..."

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