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How the Universe got its Spots
Janna Levin, Evan Scannapieco, Giancarlo de Gasperis +2
The universe displays a three-dimensional pattern of hot and cold spots in the radiation remnant from the big bang. The global geometry of the universe can be revealed in the spati…
The topology of the universe: the biggest manifold of them all
Janna Levin, Evan Scannapieco, Joseph Silk
Clues as to the geometry of the universe are encoded in the cosmic background radiation. Hot and cold spots in the primordial radiation may be randomly distributed in an infinite u…
Is The Universe Infinite Or Is It Just Really Big?
Janna Levin, Evan Scannapieco, Joseph Silk
The global geometry of the universe is in principle as observable an attribute as local curvature. Previous studies have established that if the universe is wrapped into a flat hyp…