Can one hear the shape of the Universe?
arXiv:astro-ph/0412407 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.021301
Abstract
It is shown that the recent observations of NASA's explorer mission "Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe" (WMAP) hint that our Universe may possess a non-trivial topology. As an example we discuss the Picard space which is stretched out into an infinitely long horn but with finite volume.
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