UM-Bot Posted January 18, 2009 #1 Share Posted January 18, 2009 Image credit: NASA The universe appears to be lopsided, and a new model that aims to explain this anomaly could offer a glimpse of what happened before the birth of it all. When astronomers look out at the cosmos, the view in one direction is turning out to be different than in the other. Specifically, fluctuations in the density and temperature of the radiation left over from the theoretical Big Bang — called the Cosmic Microwave Background — seem to be strangely larger on one side of the universe. A new model suggests this unevenness could be caused by an imprint left over from before the beginning of the universe, that is, before the cosmos ballooned almost instantaneously from less than the size of an atom to about golf-ball size. This process is called inflation. View: Full Article | Source: MSNBC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DieChecker Posted January 18, 2009 #2 Share Posted January 18, 2009 Maybe one proto-universe whacked into a second proto-universe and the thicker radiation on one side is due to something similar to inertia? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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