Speaker
Subir Sarkar (University of Oxford, England)
Date & Time
Wed, 26 December 2018, 15:00 to 16:00
Venue
Emmy Noether Seminar Room, ICTS Campus, Bangalore
Resources
Abstract
That the universe is statistically isotropic when averaged over large scales is a foundational `principle’ of the standard cosmological model. Recent surveys of the distribution of galaxies & radio sources and studies of the relic cosmic microwave background radiation now make it possible to test this observationally - with some intriguing results.
[arXiv:1703.09376, arXiv:1711.08441, arXiv:1712.03444, arXiv:1808.04597]