The concluding remarks sound like they come from Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
LOL. Harry > Cosmic oddity casts doubt on theory of universe <snip> > > "There is no way to judge the real significance of such a result," says > Charles Bennett of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., the > leader of the WMAP team. > > It all depends on how we perceive "chance," and how we evaluate > probabilities, Dr. Bennett says. The alignments seen in the CMB may seem > unlikely, he says, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they require new > physics to explain them. > > He points out that "improbable things happen frequently because there are > lots of opportunities for them to occur." In other words, he says, the newly > discovered CMB correlations are most likely the product of chance.
