Yes, if the measurments can be confirmed for different (and hopefully bigger parts of the sky), the cyclic model of Turok and Steinhardt seems to be very unlikely now, as it has predicted a very small polarisation of the cosmic microwave background.

What puzzles me, is that neither the WMAP probe nor the Planck probe have found a polarisation and now the polarisation was found with a ground based telescope? The resolution of the WMAP probe was probably too low, but the planck probe has had a much higher resolution.

Sven

P.S.: An explanation and comparison of both, the big bang inflationary model and the cyclic model featuring Dr. Paul J. Steinhardt:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

I just tried to install FreeBSD-8.2 on my laptop, but I wasn't even able to boot the installation CD or DVD or USB stick image.
All i get to see is a list of registers and finaly the line

BTX halted

Same with PC-BSD.

After searching the net for this, I found the advise to turn off AHCI in the BIOS, which isn't possible, because the bios setup of my laptop is pretty minimal. So now I'm stuck.

So if anyone wonders why more folks aren't using FreeBSD on the desktop, this is the reason.
At least for me.

Sven

A few years ago a friend of mine asked me if i had already tried the new Slackware. I didn't know what he was talking about, so he explained it to me and gave me a demonstration on his PC. I was really impressed. I bought this computer magazine with the Slackware 3 CD (three) and installed it on my PC. It felt like I had a new computer, but it was still my 486 DX2 66 @ 8MB RAM.
So if you ask me what the best computer upgrade I've ever done was, I really have to say that there was never a whoooaa experience like this one.

Greetings
Sven