16 ene 2014

Have Scientists Determined the Exact Dimensions of the Universe?




A team of scientists from Washington believe that they have managed to establish the exact size of the universe to within 1 per cent accuracy.



In a remarkable development, the researchers, who were working with the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), have been able to measure the distances to galaxies that are over 6 billion light years away.



"There are not many things in our daily lives that we know to 1-percent accuracy," said David Schlegel, a physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the principal investigator of BOSS. "I now know the size of the universe better than I know the size of my house."



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