WHAT would you do if you found a mysterious and controversial pattern in the radiation left over from the big bang? In 2005, Kate Land and João Magueijo at Imperial College London faced just such a conundrum. What they did next was a PR master stroke: they called their discovery the cosmic "axis of evil".
What exactly had they seen? Instead of finding hot and cold spots randomly spattered across the sky as they expected, the pair's analysis showed that the spots in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) appeared to be aligned in one particular direction through space..
13 things we don't understand (yet)
Posted on Sunday, September 13 2009 @ 12:07 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Newscientist has compiled a list of 13 things that don't make sense, you can read it over here. Here's one of them: