Pre-WMAP 3 release poll

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On Thursday the main news will be:

Poll ended at March 17 2006

spectral index is <1 at high confidence
5
24%
there is a 2.5 sigma detection of running of s... oh, wait...
0
No votes
redshift of reionisation is down to 8
11
52%
3 sigma detection of BB polarisation modes
0
No votes
high confidence detection of a non-cosmological low l anomaly
3
14%
high confidence detection of non-Gaussianity
2
10%
 
Total votes: 21

Anze Slosar
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Post by Anze Slosar » March 14 2006

In two days nothing will be quite the same... :) Let's speculate one last time and see who is right (cf. astro-ph/0212417).

Alessandro Melchiorri
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Post by Alessandro Melchiorri » March 15 2006

I vote n<1 and tau down...as was before wmap first year...
(see astro-ph/0212276 :-))

Pablo Fosalba
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Post by Pablo Fosalba » March 16 2006

I think the main result will be a very accurate determination of the age of the universe: only 2 year uncertainty ;-)

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Post by Alessandro Melchiorri » March 16 2006

Actually I think there will be a lower limit > 3 years but with extremely high confidence level ! :-))

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