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Physical cartographic visualizations built by geographer Wolf-Dieter Rase with a Z650 printer. Left: average prices for building lots in Germany in 2006. Middle: unemployment in Germany in 2006; The surface represent trends, the columns represent local deviations from the trends (magenta means higher, cyan means lower). Right: travel distance to airports. Source: Wolf-Dieter Rase (2012) Creating Physical 3D Maps Using Rapid Prototyping Techniques.

As the diagram shows, within all theoretical and observational errors, the Big Bang Nucleosynthesis are impressively accurate. Except in the leftmost part, the pale blue strip indicating the observed value for helium-4 can hardly be distinguished from the theoretical curve. The green deuterium curve meets the pale green strip indicating the observed value almost exactly at the value indicated by the WMAP observations (vertical golden strip), and similarly the WMAP observations, the magenta helium-3 curve and the observed upper limit for helium-3 coincide very well. Only for lithium-7 is there an appreciable gap between prediction and observation though, given the uncertainties of determining the initial abundance of this element from observations, this discrepancy is likely to teach us more about stellar physics than about Big Bang Nucleosynthesis. All in all, this match between theory and observation constitutes one of the big successes of the standard models of cosmology.

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