How the Planck Discovery Could Point Toward a New Physics

"One of the features of inflation is it says there should be no preferred direction - everywhere in the universe should be more or less the same...But when you look at the amplitudes, even by eye you can tell that one side of the universe looks different from the other side."

"That is to say, the temperature variations in the CMB appear to be sized and spaced differently when Planck looks in one direction, than when it looks in the other. There are other anomalies as well. The variations don't appear to behave the same on large scales as they do on small scales, and there are some particularly large features, such as a hefty cold spot, that were not predicted by basic inflation models. Ultimately, the data show "some features that are surprising and very, very intriguing"

Very intriguing indeed. Lets hope it leads to some new theory.