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What they can't explain is a discovery announced a few days ago by Lawrence Rudnick, an astronomer at the University of Minnesota. He and a couple of colleagues have found what they think is another void in space - but at about a billion light-years across (that's 6 billion trillion miles, give or take), it's many times bigger than any void ever seen. It's so big, in fact, that if it's really there, it could cause real problems for all current models of the universe; the 14 or so billion years since the Big Bang...
That could hardly be a coincidence, Rudnick thought, and the simplest solution was a great void in space. That would explain why there weren't many radio galaxies in that part of the sky. And microwaves crossing a huge void would lose some of their energy, in a complex process involving the reduced gravity inside. The exciting part is that the void is so huge that current theory simply can't explain it - and astronomers just love this kind of challenge...
...WMAP project and the chair of the astrophysics department at Princeton, explains that the microwave signal from the Big Bang has intrinsic hot and cold spots. It's possible that this particular part of the microwave sky was significantly colder than average to begin with. If so, Rudnick's "void" could actually be a region that's merely less dense than average, not completely empty...
...There was a lot of confusion in the clinical and lay communities around the use of the vaccine in individuals already infected," says Hildesheim. He says that he and his team are "trying to fill the void" left by publications that haven't addressed patients' questions about whether the vaccine can be used to treat infection. "We wanted to make it clear. The vaccine is not therapeutic," he says. "[The study] reinforces the greater utility of vaccinating young and adolescent girls before they initiate sexual activity because that's how you get the most benefit from this vaccine...
...math doesn't render Obama's Chicago-Iraq analogy totally null and void. On the one hand, the point is statistically unhinged, like comparing the GDP of different countries without knowing the currency. On the other hand, politics isn't math...