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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><pre><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:#1F497D'>This boggles the hell out of my mind. Why should there be features or asymmetry at all? If I had been there before the Big Bang, I would have predicted the expansion of the early universe should have produced a perfectly uniform inflation. But that apparently isn’t what happened:<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21866464">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21866464</a><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:#1F497D'>The more I ponder this map, the crazier it seems to me. How did asymmetry of any kind ever form? Why did matter clump here but not there? What was wrong with there? What was right with here?<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='color:#1F497D'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></pre></div></body></html>