Undermines· strongCCC-E003
Moss, Scott & Zibin 2011: the variations are entirely expected in a structured sky
- what the source states
- "We can indeed confirm that such variations do exist in the temperature variance for annuli around points in the data. However, we find that this variation is entirely expected in a sky which contains the usual CMB anisotropies. In other words, properly simulated Gaussian CMB data contain just the sorts of variations claimed. Gurzadyan & Penrose have not found evidence for pre-Big Bang phenomena, but have simply re-discovered that the CMB contains structure."
- what we infer
- Undermines the anomaly claim (CCC-C002) and supplies the rival thesis's slogan (CCC-C010). The direction here is logged against CCC-C002; the same record's confirmation of the features' existence is carried by CCC-E002's parallel finding rather than double-counted.
- limitations
- Same ensemble-choice dependence as all critical reanalyses (CCC-C003).
- The paper also notes the low-variance circles are dominated by low-multipole structure, an explanatory detail not separately imported.