[Cosmo-media] Re: the shape of the universe

t.rozek at fz-juelich.de t.rozek at fz-juelich.de
Tue Feb 21 21:12:01 CET 2006


Dear Sir,

thank you for the response. 

I know answers for questions I've send to you. My point is to get your answers. Short, competent and for the "grass root". Therefore I would like to ask you to consider one more time the request included in my previous letter.

With the best wishes
Tomek Rozek


----- Original Message -----
From: Boud Roukema <boud at astro.uni.torun.pl>
Date: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 12:47 pm
Subject: Re: the shape of the universe

> On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 t.rozek at fz-juelich.de wrote:
> 
> > Dear Sir,
> >
> > I'm a physicist and scientific writer. Within the new project of 
> Axel Springer publishing house (editor of Newsweek in Poland and 
> Die Welt in Germany) in Poland I would like to invite you to the 
> discussion about the shape of the universe.
> >
> > As I know scientific group you are the leader, in 2004 went 
> public with the information that in the microwave background 
> radiation picture there are some indications, that our universe 
> has a shape of dodecahedron.
> >
> > Questions I'm asking you are the same like these I have sent to 
> other expert in this field. I will not hide, that his opinion 
> about the shape of the universe is different than your.
> >
> > I will be pleased to get from you compact answers to questions 
> which are listed below. Please keep in mind that new Axel Springer 
> daily will be addressed to nonspecialists in physics or astronomy.
> >
> > Let me thank you in advance for time you will spend to answer my 
> questions. I'm looking forward to your respond.
> >
> > With the best regards
> > Tomasz Rozek
> 
> 
> Dear Tomasz
> 
> Answers to your questions are publicly available in research 
> papers and
> in pedagogical (encyclopedia level) material as below.
> 
> boud
> 
> 
> 
> >  1. Analysis of the microwave background radiation are the only way
> > - I guess - to collect information about the shape of the
> > universe. Isn't it risky to draw conclusions resulting from only one
> > experiment ?
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method#Evaluations_and_iterations
> 
> > 2. Why this is commonly believed, that data from WMAP probe, brought
> > down the concept of flat and infinite universe ?
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda-CDM_model
> 
> > 3. There are many ideas concerning the shape of the universe. Maybe
> > it is like a sphere, cylinder, funnel, but it can also be like bell,
> > horn or dodecahedron. Why do you claim that space is
> > dodecahedron-like ?
> 
> http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ksztalt_Wszechswiata
> 
> > 4. What are the errors or defects of the idea of horn-like space ?
> 
> http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0403597
> 
> > 5. Could you in the very easy way explain the expression, that space
> > has a shape ?
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_of_the_Universe
> 
> > 6. Do efforts to establish a shape of the universe have any
> > practical meaning or you are doing that just to know ?
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_science
> 
> > 7. Did universe have a beginning, and ones will have the end ?
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_fate_of_the_universe
> 
> 




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