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Universe Shaped Like A Soccer Ball?
Rabid Rob writes "According to a New Scientist article, and prompted by data from NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), it's suggested the universe could be shaped like a soccer ball - the 'cosmic microwave background' has fluctuations, and a possible conclusion is that 'our Universe seems like an endlessly repeating set of dodecahedrons.' Oh yeah, the universe is only 70 billion light years across, so better buy up the real estate now while it's still cheap!" The NYT has more information (free reg. req.) on this theory, which is quickly being refuted by Wernstrom-like rival researchers.
When will the US finally realise and stop playing all those other silly sports with Joan Collins style shoulder pads
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
What's on the outside of the universe?
... If I go there, will I escape Governor Conan and reality TV?
"The universe is FLAT I tell you!"
Not only is it not just a matter of life and death, but football is an integral part of the universe...
In my country (the Netherlands) most people think that the world revolves around football (that is soccer). So let's all keep this quiet, and not let all those soccer fans know that in reality the whole universe now seems to revolve around, and is shaped like, a football...
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space
What does that make Pele?
Or Buckminster Fuller?
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
From the New Scientist article
I wonder how that sentence should be interpreted...How well could Roberto Carlos curve it?
I predict that in a few weeks someone probably will say it's shaped like a mushroom..
and in a few years a madman in a Utah asylum will say he has the rights to the sourcecode of the universe
- I choked on the red pill and now I'm stuck in limbo
You are so right. We should only focus on research that gives instant economical profit. I propose that most research funds should be given as loans, so that we won't get useless science like this.
How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life
Sweet finally, screw light speed. I'll move my ships 1d6 hexigons per turn.
1: Become God
2: ????
3: Prophet
I have no sig yet I must scream.
12-sided ones to be exact.
So if nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, and the universe is supposed to be 7-15 billion years old (depending on who you ask), how ca n it be 70 billion light years across? Hmmm. Answer me that one scientist.
Because space is really made of nothing, and nothing can travel faster than light.