#cosmicstrings

Daniel Pomarèdepomarede
2024-03-28

Cosmic Strings, and their inprint on the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation, on the cover of this 1984 issue of Nature.

Featuring a paper by Nick Kaiser and Albert Stebbins
nature.com/articles/310391a0

... and a News & Views article by Craig Hogan
nature.com/articles/310365a0

A cover of the Nature Journal, dated 2-8 August 1984 with the title "Cosmic Strings in the Early Universe"

If galaxy formation was initiated by "cosmic strings", these strings would also produce distinctive angular fluctuations in the temperature of the microwave background radiation. This illustration, in which temperature has been mapped to colours, depicts the type of pattern one would see on a patch of sky a few degrees square.
Daniel Pomarèdepomarede
2024-01-23

The ingredients of a cosmological mystery: Big Ring, Giant Arc, Sloan Great Wall, South Pole Wall, Clowes-Campusano Large Quasar Group, Laniakea Supercluster, the dark flow, Sir Roger Penrose's Conformal Cyclic Cosmology, cosmic strings, ...
space.com/big-ring-galactic-su

Daniel Pomarèdepomarede
2024-01-17

The discovery of the Big Ring makes it to the frontpage of the Financial Times!

"This Big Ring of galaxies and galaxy clusters joins an expanding catalogue of mammoth structures that defy scientific expectation."

🔭 Alexia Lopez @morninglopez, Roger Clowes @rgclowes, and Gerard Williger
✍️ Anjana Ahuja

ft.com/content/128ea9a2-5544-4

2024-01-05
James BeanSantMat
2022-12-27

Michio Kaku: “The mind of God, we believe, is cosmic music. The music of strings resonating through 11-dimensional hyperspace.”

2022-09-25

The Big Bang should have made cracks in spacetime—why haven’t we found them?
Cosmic strings' greatest power? Their ability to confound physicists.

arstechnica.com/science/2022/0

Chris :freebsd:chrism@qoto.org
2020-09-29

Possible first sightings of #cosmicstrings leftover from the #bigbang?

Pulsar Data May Point to Cosmic Strings from the Big Bang | Quanta Magazine
quantamagazine.org/pulsar-data

#cosmology #qotojournal

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