cosmology thread

for those of you interested,

http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0310253

"This is a slightly longer version of the paper published
in Nature 425, p. 593, 2003."

A very compelling idea, to me at least. But

http://www.hep.upenn.edu/~angelica/topology.html

and

http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0310233

claim to have ruled it all out.

-Carl

> http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0310253

"While most potential spatial topologies fail to
fit the WMAP results, the Poincare dodecahedral space
fits them strikingly well."

Actually, Figure 1 looks kinda weak to me.

I'd certainly welcome more detail as far a "most
potential spatial topologies".

-Carl