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With apologies to George Smoot




Ted Bunn writes:

| The nice thing about this is that you can tell the two
| [cosmological models] apart!
| If you take a snapshot of the Universe at some later time t, the
| modes that will have reached maxima in the adiabatic case
| will have wavenumbers in the ratio 1:2:3 (maxima of the cosine
| function), while isocurvature models will predict peaks at
| wavenumbers in the ratio 1:3:5.


Hmmm!  Half-open pipes (like organ pipes, or end-blown woodwinds) have
harmonics in the ratios 1:3:5, while pipes open at both ends (like flutes)
have harmonics in the ratios 1:2:3.  So (with apologies to George Smoot) could
we say that the problem is to find out how God orchestrated the creation?