Some people are loath to take a lopsided view of the
universe, but cosmologist Sean Carroll and his colleagues are positively
reveling in it. Embracing a study that suggests the pattern of radiation left
over from the Big Bang looks surprisingly different from one side of the sky to
the other, Carroll and colleagues have come up with some mind-bending possibilities
to explain the puzzle, described in a paper posted online June 3.
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