[extropy-chat] ecliptic preferred frame

[steven mckenzie]

may I suggest, that this ia an illusion, and maybe
another intelligence would see the same thing, is the
acuity of these devices perfect?
just an idea



--- Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:

>
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/krauss06/krauss06.2_index.html
> 
> Care to speculate on this weirdness, Robert?
> Lawrence Krauss says:
> 
> <...the impact of the recent cosmic microwave 
> background (CMB) studies on Inflation Theory.... 
> what is intriguing to me is that while everything 
> is consistent with the simplest models, there's 
> one area where there's a puzzle. On the largest 
> scales, when we look out at the universe, there 
> doesn't seem to be enough structure ­ not as much 
> as inflation would predict. Now the question is, is
> that a statistical fluke?
> 
> That is, we live in one universe, so we're a 
> sample of one. With a sample of one, you have 
> what is called a large sample variance. And maybe 
> this just means we're lucky, that we just happen 
> to live in a universe where the number's smaller 
> than you'd predict. But when you look at CMB map, 
> you also see that the structure that is observed, 
> is in fact, in a weird way, correlated with the 
> plane of the earth around the sun. Is this 
> Copernicus coming back to haunt us? That's crazy. 
> We're looking out at the whole universe. There's 
> no way there should be a correlation of structure 
> with our motion of the earth around the sun ­ the 
> plane of the earth around the sun ­ the ecliptic. 
> That would say we are truly the center of the
> universe.
> 
> The new results are either telling us that all of 
> science is wrong and we're the center of the 
> universe, or maybe the data is simply incorrect, 
> or maybe it's telling us there's something weird 
> about the microwave background results and that 
> maybe, maybe there's something wrong with our
> theories on the larger scales.>
> 
> Talk about anthropic! Spooky!
> 
> Damien Broderick
> 
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