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This article was originally written for a paranormal magazine called The Paranormal Journal, it became known as The Underground Files covering ghosts, ufos, cryptozoology, and government conspiracies amongst others. I no longer write for the magazine and it is no longer in existence.
Small World,
Small Universe!
The laws of
physics are on the way out, Einstein’s theory out of the window, modern science,
up front and in your face by the looks of things as scientists may have recently
found.
The universe, infinitely
believed to be infinite, is perhaps finite after all and is shaped like a sphere
and patched together like a football.
Macarthur Fellow, Jeffrey
Weeks, based in Canton, New York, along with researchers from the University of
Paris and Observatory of Paris analysed astronomical data, which suggests the
universe is finite and is made of curved pentagons joined together in a
ball.
In research reported in the
science journal Nature on Wednesday, 8th October 2003, the scientists said data
from NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotrophy Probe (WMAP), which maps background
radiation left over from the Big Bang, is not consistent with an infinite
universe.
“Since antiquity, humans
have wondered whether our universe is finite or infinite. Now, after more than
two millennia of speculation, observational data might finally settle the
ancient question,” Weeks said.
In a commentary on research,
George Ellis of the University of Cape Town in South Africa said if Weeks and
his team were correct, then we indeed live in a small, closed
universe.
Perhaps UFOs don’t have so
far to travel after all, the speculation of which now becomes more infinite for
light years of other universes to exist overlapped with the other – or is that
just part of the patchwork of the ‘soccer ball’.
We maybe learning a bit but
we may not know all in our lifetimes’ either. Brings a whole new meaning to
watch this space…!
Small World,
Small Universe! Written by Bill Barber
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