Supports· moderateCCC-E001
Gurzadyan & Penrose 2010: concentric low-variance circles at up to 6σ
- what the source states
- Analysis of the WMAP 7-year maps "does indeed reveal such concentric circles, of up to 6σ significance," with the same analysis applied to BOOMERanG98 data "eliminating the possibility of an instrumental cause for the effects." The authors state these observational predictions of CCC "would not be easily explained within standard inflationary cosmology."
- what we infer
- The founding detection claim of the observational program. Its strength here is capped at moderate despite the headline 6σ because the significance was computed against the pure-Gaussian-plus-noise ensemble that every subsequent independent reanalysis identifies as the inadequate null (CCC-C003) — and the paper itself was never journal-published.
- limitations
- Preprint only; the significance methodology was never refereed in this form.
- Authored by the theory's originator and his collaborator.
- The cross-instrument (BOOMERanG) check addresses instrumental artifacts, not the null-ensemble objection.