[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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