by Doug Coulter » Fri May 27, 2011 9:51 am
Depending on which cosmological religion you attend, that IS the normal coordinate system. Just not earth-centric.
Yes, the non uniformity is tantalizing despite all that blather about the really uniform cosmic background, eh? I saw an earlier version some years back in split-image 3d and it looked for all the world like the boundaries of popping beer-foam bubbles. Perhaps "the creator" had a sense of humor!
Or as some people added on to Guths inflation theory, what you're seeing is perhaps quantum fluctuations, but way extremely magnified. Fun how cosmology can be done with beer and pizza and the same data gets a lot of explanations. The 'brane guys think this was influenced by another "many worlds" universe's gravity leaking into ours. And fractal lovers have yet another model.
All seem to sorta explain how we could have fairly flat CBE yet have this sort of grouping going on -- average over enough and everything is flat, right?
I'll settle for "it's beautiful" for the moment.
Posting as just me, not as the forum owner. Everything I say is "in my opinion" and YMMV -- which should go for everyone without saying.