What aspect does space have?

2003/02/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Astrofisika

To answer this question, a group of international astronomers intends to analyze the temperature fluctuations present in microwave background radiation.

The topology of space has awakened in recent years the attention of astronomers. Astronomers realized that even though it is plain it can have more than one appearance, in fact, if it is plain it would be possible 18 topologies, and if it has some degree of curvature the possibilities are much more.

While the latest measurements of the microwave background radiation have concluded that the curvature is almost zero, it can still not be claimed to be fully flat, so the possible topologies are many. How to know the right thing?

Measuring the temperature fluctuations of the microwave background radiation, they have seen that they can receive instructions on the physical state and current geometric form of the time when the Universe was created. The technology has been prepared to perform these measurements and now the data collection begins. They have no easy challenge!