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Lopsided universe demands different explanation

Analysis of radiation left over from the Big Bang point to a possible new type of field in early universe

By Ron Cowen

- More than 2 years ago

For a group of scientists who profess to love the symmetries in nature, cosmologists and astronomers spend an awful lot of time looking for and analyzing imbalances in the cosmic architecture.

ASYMMETRIES Map depicts tiny hot and cold spots, no more than 200 microkelvins above or below the average temperature of the cosmic microwave background, the radiation left over from the Big Bang.