Misc. on real "refracted" light in the universe

[Dave Monroe]

On 4/7/08, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Another conference speaker will be Dr Andrew Jaffe<http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/a.jaffe>
>  [image: New Window]  from Imperial, who will speak about the work he and
> his former PhD student Anastasia Niarchou have been carrying out on the
> topology of the universe. Topology is an extension of geometry which deals
> with not only shape, but the structure and nature of space which may enable
> us to "look in one direction and see light coming from an entirely different
> direction." Dr Jaffe contends that current cosmological data finally allow
> us to see far enough away to begin to look for these effects.


There was a guy @ the McDonald's the other day talking about building a
mirror big enough to see around the curvature of space and into the future.
Something like that?  Meanwhile ...

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-end-of-cosmology
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