Re: Renacuajos canibales y otras cosillas

[Eloy Anguiano <Eloy.Anguiano@...>]

Santiago Arteaga wrote:


Santi. Gracias por las referencias.

Por cierto, muy buena la del aņo 2000, la usare.


> Does the universe as a whole have a preferred direction? Borge
> Nodland (University of Rochester) and John P. Ralston (University
> of Kansas) made such a claim last month, based on their observation
> that radio waves from distant galaxies seemed polarized in a manner
> that varies from one side of the sky to the other, thus defining a
> preferred axis. But that would violate a cherished cosmological
> axiom: the universe should look the same in all directions.
 
> Since then other astronomers have come forward to question the
> finding. Sean M. Carroll (University of California, Santa Barbara)
> and George B. Field (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
> have reexamined Nodland and Ralston's data and found their result
> statistically insignificant. And a group led by John F. C. Wardle
> (Brandeis University) used the Very Large Array (VLA) radio
> telescope in New Mexico and the 10-meter Keck telescope in Hawaii
> to look for the telltale polarization in 26 quasars -- but they
> can't see it. Finally, Stanford astronomers Ronald N. Bracewell
> and Von R. Eshleman point out that the suspected axis lies within
> 30 degrees of known hot and cold spots in the cosmic microwave
> background. Those spots exist because our solar system is in orbit
> around the center of the Milky Way, which itself is bound to the
> Virgo Cluster of galaxies. Our motion with respect to the universe
> at large, they suggest, may explain the controversial findings.


Que aprendan algunos cual es el metodo cientifico.

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