Four years after the launch of ESA's Plank satellite mission, the agency has at last seen fit to publish a small chunk of the data gathered during the first year of Plank's operation. To me it seems outrageous that this mission, which has been funded by the European taxpayer, should be the preserve of a small clique of professional scientists. Having just sat though two distinctly underwhelming press connects to present the mission's initial findings, I am left wondering exactly why the ESA felt it necessary to cloak the whole operation in secrecy over the past four years.
Anyway, the data is now out in the public domain and available for analysis by independent cosmologists like me. Having published a paper a few years ago predicting that the Planck data would reveal some interesting data about anomalous photon noise, I am obviously keen to see whether these predictions turn out to be true. If this does turn out to be the case then the implications for our view of space, time and the structure of the cosmos would be fairly profound, to say the least. Watch this space!
Anyway, the data is now out in the public domain and available for analysis by independent cosmologists like me. Having published a paper a few years ago predicting that the Planck data would reveal some interesting data about anomalous photon noise, I am obviously keen to see whether these predictions turn out to be true. If this does turn out to be the case then the implications for our view of space, time and the structure of the cosmos would be fairly profound, to say the least. Watch this space!
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