________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ [Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] With apologies to George Smoot ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ * Subject: With apologies to George Smoot * From: "Michael Weiss" * Date: 10 May 2000 00:00:00 GMT * Approved: spr@rosencrantz.stcloudstate.edu (sci.physics.research) * Newsgroups: sci.physics.research * Organization: (none) * References: <20000503192709.A42823@phy.hr><200005041629.LAA03309@rosencrantz.stcloudstate.edu><8etgil$bek$1@pravda.ucr.edu> <200005052007.PAA06176@rosencrantz.stcloudstate.edu> ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 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. 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