playing with ideas

I'm in my typical state of mind-not feeling too smart. About what you may wonder? First I must share the good news. It seems like my cosmological constant resolution is looking good in the eyes of the referee of my paper! I can't talk too much about this-but so far so good. But there is this other nagging thing that has occupied my mind for the past few weeks. It has to do with the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR) and whether or not there is parity violation present in it. To answer this question, I will have to figure out a clever way of analyzing the data which takes into account foreground noise which could also contribute to parity violation. Needless to say that I'm not an expert on analyzing the WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe) data. So I've been trying to convince Professor Sarah Church and her Post doc Dr. Melanie Bowden to join a collaboration with me and Peskin. It will be very cool if there is parity violation on large scales. I believe that this may be a way of testing the baryon asymmetry idea I published two years ago. Time will tell...