'Axis of evil' and other horrors

摘要

For all that it's done for cosmology, NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anlsotropy Probe has also thrown up some unwelcome surprises which Planck may resolve.rnWMAP saw patterns of hot and cold spots in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) that are not randomly distributed as expected. Instead, they seem to be aligned along what Joao Magueijo and his team at Imperial College London (ICL) dubbed the "axis of evil".