Wednesday February 02, 2011

Bigger Than It Looks:
Universe Could Be 250 Times Larger Than Previously Thought

The size of the Universe is a topic that has exercised cosmologist's brains for decades.

A new statistical analysis indicates that the Universe may be 250 times larger than previously thought.

From Technology Review:

They say that the curvature of the Universe is tightly constrained around 0. In other words, the most likely model is that the Universe is flat. A flat Universe would also be infinite and their calculations are consistent with this too. These show that the Universe is at least 250 times bigger than the Hubble volume. (The Hubble volume is similar to the size of the observable universe.)

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