Indications about the Shape of the Universe from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe Data
- 18 January 2005
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 94 (2) , 021301
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.94.021301
Abstract
It is shown that the recent observations of NASA's Explorer mission, "Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe," hint that our Universe may possess a nontrivial topology. As an example we discuss the Picard space which is stretched out into an infinitely long horn but with finite volume.Keywords
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