{"id":1787,"date":"2015-05-01T21:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T21:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/?p=1787"},"modified":"2016-06-17T15:13:26","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T15:13:26","slug":"hearing-the-shape-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/hearing-the-shape-of-the-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearing the Shape of the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"style21\" align=\"center\"><span class=\"style22\">John Dulin with Glenn Starkman<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"center\"><span class=\"style21\"><span class=\"style20\"><em>Hearing the Shape of the Universe<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The past few years of work on discerning the topology of the universe have focused on methods like cosmic crystallography and circles-in-the-sky searches, as well as examinations of the correlation matrix to uncover manifolds with non-trivial topology. \u00a0While helping to constrain the universe&#8217;s possible topologies, these hunts have not discovered the ultimate universal shape. \u00a0 This project aims to extend that investigation to a broader set of topological spaces, including some deformations of known manifolds, and some non-manifolds, using known methods &#8212; circles and correlation function comparisons. \u00a0The ultimate goal is to generalize the existing methods to one that works by detecting the discreteness of the Fourier spectrum in a cosmologically non-trivial space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Dulin with Glenn Starkman<em>Hearing the Shape of the Universe<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The past few years of work on discerning the topology of the universe have focused on methods like cosmic crystallography and circles-in-the-sky searches, as well as examinations of the correlation matrix to uncover manifolds with non-trivial topology. \u00a0While helping to constrain the universe&#8217;s possible topologies, these hunts have not discovered the ultimate universal shape. \u00a0 This project aims to extend that investigation to a broader set of topological spaces, including some deformations of known manifolds, and some non-manifolds, using known methods &#8212; circles and correlation function comparisons. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/hearing-the-shape-of-the-universe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hearing the Shape of the Universe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[43,1,40,5,8,29],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1788,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions\/1788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}