As I noted in the previous post, Planck has made it into a number of newspapers recently. The one I like most, and which is the first one I saw, was a cartoon from Le Monde:
(if this doesn't show up, you can also find it here). It says, basically "Here's an image of the Universe just after the Big Bang"; "An ultra-flat disk that then expands. Cool, no?"; "We come from a pizza?".
I'm pretty sure this is about Planck, and that it refers to this Planck image of the Universe:
(which I have to admit does look something like a pizza. We call it the Pink Panther, and I'm glad our newer images look different. But I digress).
But I'm really not sure, because the cartoon was on a page with a bunch of stuff that had nothing to do with Planck. It was, well, the daily news. Which I suppose is appropriate, but do the editors of Le Monde actually expect people to get the allusion? Do they? If so, the French are FAR better informed that I am, in general...
And this is not an isolated occurrence. I was in France when the BOOMERANG results came out, and I found (or rather, Eric Hivon found) this in Le Canard Enchaine:
It says "The Universe is not shaped like a saddle."; "Which at least proves that God is not a knight."
Again, this was just surrounded by a bunch of other... news. Nothing else about BOOMERANG or cosmology, or anything else.
Seems like newspapers here in France have a lot of confidence in their readers. Or don't care...
[ add comment ] [ 0 trackbacks ] permalink (if this doesn't show up, you can also find it here). It says, basically "Here's an image of the Universe just after the Big Bang"; "An ultra-flat disk that then expands. Cool, no?"; "We come from a pizza?". I'm pretty sure this is about Planck, and that it refers to this Planck image of the Universe:
;)
(which I have to admit does look something like a pizza. We call it the Pink Panther, and I'm glad our newer images look different. But I digress).
But I'm really not sure, because the cartoon was on a page with a bunch of stuff that had nothing to do with Planck. It was, well, the daily news. Which I suppose is appropriate, but do the editors of Le Monde actually expect people to get the allusion? Do they? If so, the French are FAR better informed that I am, in general...
And this is not an isolated occurrence. I was in France when the BOOMERANG results came out, and I found (or rather, Eric Hivon found) this in Le Canard Enchaine:
;)
It says "The Universe is not shaped like a saddle."; "Which at least proves that God is not a knight."
Again, this was just surrounded by a bunch of other... news. Nothing else about BOOMERANG or cosmology, or anything else.
Seems like newspapers here in France have a lot of confidence in their readers. Or don't care...
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