Question

Progress in why the universe is 3+1 dimensional?

Resolved:No

7 comments7

Total Forecasters90

Community Prediction

42%

(22% - 47%)

Make a Prediction

50%

community: 42%

Did this actually happen?No

Community Peer Score

25.4

Authors:

Anthony

Opened:

May 13, 2016

Closes:

Dec 1, 2016

Resolves:

May 1, 2017

Spot Scoring Time:

May 13, 2016

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Space

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Authors:

Anthony

Opened:

May 13, 2016

Closes:

Dec 1, 2016

Resolves:

May 1, 2017

Spot Scoring Time:

May 13, 2016

Natural Sciences

Space

2016-2017 Leaderboard

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Will the majority of leading cosmologists in 2030 agree that the evidence points to an accelerating universe?

99%

Will the existence and smoothness properties of the Navier-Stokes equations in three dimensions turn out to depend on the compactness of the universe over which they are defined?

49.2%