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Pass notes No 2,677: The universe

Source: guardian.co.uk Science

Nov 04, 2009

Summary

Scientists have analysed its colour – and it's beige

Age: Approximately 13.73bn years.

Appearance: Beige.

What do you mean, beige? The universe is beige. It's been proven by science. Astrologists Karl Glazebrook and Ivan Baldry took light measurements from more than 200,000 galaxies, broke them down into their constituent colours and then averaged the colours out to produce a single shade visible to the human eye. The result was beige.

The universe is the sum of everything that ever has been, is or will be. It's even bigger than Wikipedia. It can't just be beige. No, you're right, that's ridiculous. Which is why they came up with a special name for it: the universe is, in fact, cosmic latte.

And cosmic latte is? A shade of beige.

Right, my problem was never really what the colour was called. It was the idea that the universe, also known as everything, is a single colour. We could call it something else. They also considered skyvory, astronomical almond and primordial clam chowder.

Again, the name's not important. Univeige?

Someone really suggested that? Yep.

Sure, fi

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