English

Pi in the sky

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2016-05-17 v2

Abstract

Deviations of the observed cosmic microwave background (CMB) from the standard model, known as "anomalies", are obviously highly significant and deserve to be pursued more aggressively in order to discover the physical phenomena underlying them. Through intensive investigation we have discovered that there are equally surprising features in the digits of the number π\pi, and moreover there is a remarkable correspondence between each type of peculiarity in the digits of π\pi and the anomalies in the CMB. Putting aside the unreasonable possibility that these are just the sort of flukes that appear when one looks hard enough, the only conceivable conclusion is that, however the CMB anomalies were created, a similar process imprinted patterns in the digits of π\pi.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1603.09703,
  title  = {Pi in the sky},
  author = {Ali Frolop and Douglas Scott},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.09703},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

9 pages, including 14 figures. Additions in revised version are based on many comments sent by colleagues, several of whom wished to remain anonymous

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