[Physicist]

You can find more information here, and even download the paper if you dare.

Max Tegmark is a physics geek's physics geek, and a truly nice guy.

[MikeD]

OK, I take back one of my earlier criticisms. The paper has been submitted to Phys. Rev. D. Thanks for the link -- I'll check it out in more detail.

MD

[MikeD]

OK, open mouth insert whole leg. The paper looks cool. The crazy universe thing is mentioned in one sentence near the back -- the bulk of the paper is about removing contamination sources from the raw data. Looks like the NYT may have jumped the gun.

Either that or I'm misreading things.

Either way, my gut says there's some other source of contamination that was missed.

MD