Is the Universe Asymmetrical?

Postdoc at Columbia may have found a “smoking gun” for new frontiers in physics.

February 27, 2023


Postdoc Oliver Philcox, a junior fellow in the Simons Society of Fellows, hosted at Columbia University, may have discovered a “smoking gun” for new frontiers in physics, in the form of a striking asymmetry in the arrangements of galaxies in the sky. If confirmed, the finding would point to features of the unknown fundamental laws that operated during the Big Bang.

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