Oct 30
Bruce Sterling is a scarysmart guy…
Wired 11.11: Cosmic Reality Check: Already, the probe’s findings have provided a few salient new notions about the nature of cosmic reality. For starters, the universe is 13.7 billion years old. Unlike previous figures, this is not a rough estimate; the margin of error is about 1 percent. In addition, the universe is flat. Forget all that mind-boggling space-time-is-curved stuff. Euclid was right all along. And the space-time pancake will expand infinitely. There’s no such thing as an end to this particular universe.
