21–25 Jul 2025
Durham
Europe/London timezone

The Universe is not statistically isotropic

24 Jul 2025, 15:00
30m
CLC 013

CLC 013

Speaker

Glenn Starkman

Description

We have long celebrated the great success of cosmology in predicting the observed properties of the cosmic microwave background. And yet, for well over two decades there has been consistent and slowly mounting evidence that on large scales the CMB is anomalous. The evidence is consistent from experiment to experiment and it implies the violation of statistical isotropy. I will discuss this evidence, why it is so compelling, and where it may be pointing us.

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