`UP,' `DOWN' IN UNIVERSE IS SUGGESTED RESEARCHERS ANALYZE RADIO WAVES, SAY AXIS OF ORIENTATION POSSIBLE.(News/National/International)

From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | Date: April 18, 1997 | Copyright information

Byline: John Noble Wilford The New York Times

Measurements by scientists have suggested, for the first time, that the universe has an ``up'' and a ``down.''

The observation, if correct, would be one of the most surprising and fundamental new insights about the universe to emerge in recent years.

The notion that space is uniform - that it is the same in all directions, with no north and south or up and down, is a major tenet of modern cosmology - ba...

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