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Being something of a Void devotee, I’m always on the lookout for new nothing, or bigger nothing. Heck, I can even get pretty exited by a big hole in the ground. I try to remain aware of the little nothings, but after a while all those absences just lack that certain je ne sais rien.

So of course I’ve been following the news of the great big hole in the sky with some excitement. In a paper coming out nowish, they advance the theory that the void is evidence for a phase transition in the early universe. I like that one, if only because it hearkens back to Void’s sweet cousin, Noise.

Personally I still side in favor of the argument that the great big hole is a reflection of the fact that the universe is not infinite and thus you don’t see symmetry in the CMB ‘all the way up’. Why would I be in favor of a finite universe, you might ask; and well you might, because besides solving Zeno’s paradox and being an essential precondition for living in a simulable universe, there’s an even niftier thing that a finite universe implies:

More nothing.