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Letter: Spooky action

Published 30 October 2013

From Ross Gayler

In the article “pop-up universe” (5 October, p 38), which looks at unexpected similarities between distant parts of the universe, there is, courtesy of a typographical error, a reference to the Australian town of Narromine.

Meanwhile, in the letters section that week (p 30), there is a letter from Narromine. Is this evidence that both references were created by a typographic big bang and subsequently separated by editorial inflation?
Camberwell, Victoria, Australia

Issue no. 2941 published 2 November 2013

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