SETI bioastro: A cosmic hall of mirrors

From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Fri Sep 23 2005 - 13:57:21 UTC

  • Next message: LARRY KLAES: "SETI bioastro: FW: [esa_general] Reflections in the world's largest space mirror"

    Paper (*cross-listing*): physics/0509171
    Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 09:54:04 GMT (737kb)

    Title: A cosmic hall of mirrors

    Authors: Jean-Pierre Luminet

    Categories: physics.pop-ph astro-ph physics.space-ph

    Comments: 13 pages, 5 colour figures. Last news on cosmic topology. pdf only

    Subj-class: Popular Physics; Astrophysics; Space Physics

    Journal-ref: Physics World 18, 22-28 (september 2005)
    \\
    Conventional thinking says the universe is infinite. But it could be finite
    and relatively small, merely giving the illusion of a greater one, like a
    hall
    of mirrors. Recent astronomical measurements add support to a finite space
    with
    a dodecahedral topology.

    \\ ( http://arXiv.org/abs/physics/0509171 , 737kb)


  • Next message: LARRY KLAES: "SETI bioastro: FW: [esa_general] Reflections in the world's largest space mirror"

    This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.6 : Fri Sep 23 2005 - 14:00:37 UTC