MazeHatter comments on Some recent evidence against the Big Bang - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 07 January 2015 04:00:50PM *  3 points [-]

Yes, that is precisely correct. This is one anisotropy that you expect to see in any model, because it's a fact about us, not about the universe.

The higher modes, however, suggest that the Big Bang wasn't homogeneous and isotropic. That doesn't make it not a BIG BANG in a general sense, nor not the Big Bang in the technical sense. It just means that there was more going on than we knew about. We already knew that.