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---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 15:35:17 +0100 (CET) From: Boud Roukema <... To: Eugeniusz Pazderski <... Subject: stuff for a film for the EU commission or something similar

The WMAP observations of the cosmic microwave background suggest that the shape of the Universe is that of the Poincare dodecahedral space. The red and blue curves show the location and amplitude of temperature fluctuations in nearly opposite parts of the sky. As expected by the hypothesis, these temperature fluctuations seem to have nearly equal values, even though they come from oppose parts of the sky.

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values, even though they come from opposite parts of the sky.

For more information, see Roukema, Lew, Cechowska, Marecki & Bajtlik, 2004, "A hint of Poincare dodecahedral topology in the WMAP first year sky map, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 423, 821

the picture is here:

http://cosmo.torun.pl/twiki/pub/Cosmo/OswiadczeniePrasoweDodekahedron/dodec_...

pozdr boud