March 29, 2022
Lo-Tek
Dark Flow According to standard cosmological models, the motion of galaxy clusters with respect to the cosmic microwave background should be randomly distributed in all directions. However, analysing the three-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) data using the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect, astronomers Alexander Kashlinsky, F. Atrio-Barandela, D. Kocevski and H. Ebeling found evidence of a "surprisingly coherent" (600–1000 km/s) flow of clusters toward a 20-degree patch of sky between the constellations of Centaurus and Vela. The researchers had suggested that the motion may be a remnant of the influence of no-longer-visible regions of the universe prior to inflation. Telescopes cannot see events earlier than about 380,000 years after the Big Bang, when the universe became transparent (the Cosmic Microwave Background); this corresponds to the particle horizon at a distance of about 46 billion (4.6×1010) light years. Since the matter causing the net motion in this proposal is outside this range, it would in a certain sense be outside our visible universe; however, it would still be in our past light cone. The results appeared in the October 20, 2008, issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters. Since then, the authors have extended their This record would not have been possible without the vocal talents of Monsieur David 'Does your deug bite?' Lawson, Monsieur James 'Nice Deuggy' Bishop and Mr. Leigh 'Don't ever waltz into my kingdom' Lawson. Thanks too for the guitar on 'Girl from the future' by Toby Guy and, on Istanbul Dub, extra 'do do dos' by Helen Durden and cuts by DJ 1st Rate. All tracks written and produced by Bombay Monkey apart from: 'Mindpower' - version of Thomas Dolby's 'Windpower' from the album 'The Golden Age of the Wireless'. 'Istanbul Dub' - version of J Kennedy and N Simon's song 'Istanbul (not Constantinople)'. Mixed and mastered by Leigh Lawson at Unstudio. Cover art by Madina