hi everyone,
i've tried to come up with a proposal compatible with the summary here: http://cosmo.torun.pl/pipermail/cosmo-torun/2006-February/000353.html
and Andrzej's suggestion here: http://cosmo.torun.pl/pipermail/cosmo-torun/2006-February/000354.html
The proposed text is between ######### - i'm not sure if Bartek or Andrzej want to sign, or even if this is compatible with Andrzej's arguments, though i think it should be, because all the material is protected (well, open) under GFDL copyright, but it's not especially linked to any of our names - there are typically anywhere between 5 and 100 authors on the wikipedia page articles.
The LambdaCDM article presently says nothing about "bringing down the concept of flat and infinite universe" - which IMHO is rather premature anyway - IMHO that wikipedia page would be a good place to discuss that - in the wikipedia context - *if* anyone really wants to have a "public, pedagogical" debate.
The response to 4. also gives a response to Bartek's worry about the earlier Levin paper (lacking high resolution).
What do people think of this proposed response (v0.2)?
pozdr boud
PROPOSAL version 0.2 ###################################################################### Dear Tomasz,
Answers to your questions are publicly available in research papers and in pedagogical (encyclopedia level) material as below.
Boud Roukema, Bartosz Lew
- Analysis of the microwave background radiation are the only way
- I guess - to collect information about the shape of the
universe. Isn't it risky to draw conclusions resulting from only one experiment ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method#Evaluations_and_iterations
- Why this is commonly believed, that data from WMAP probe, brought
down the concept of flat and infinite universe ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda-CDM_model
- There are many ideas concerning the shape of the universe. Maybe
it is like a sphere, cylinder, funnel, but it can also be like bell, horn or dodecahedron. Why do you claim that space is dodecahedron-like ?
http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ksztalt_Wszechswiata
- What are the errors or defects of the idea of horn-like space ?
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0403597
- Could you in the very easy way explain the expression, that space
has a shape ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_of_the_Universe
- Do efforts to establish a shape of the universe have any
practical meaning or you are doing that just to know ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_science
- Did universe have a beginning, and ones will have the end ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_fate_of_the_universe
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