Image credit: Caltech & CTCP All rights Reserved, viahttp:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/MCTCP\/astro.php. <\/p>\n
The paradigm of physicswith its interplay of data, theory and predictionis the most powerful in science. -Geoffrey West <\/p>\n
So earlier this year, the BICEP2 team shook up the world by announcing the discovery of primordial gravitational waves: a signal from the earliest stages of the Universe, going all the way back tobefore the Big Bang! <\/p>\n
Image credit:the BICEP2 collaboration, viahttp:\/\/www.cfa.harvard.edu\/news\/2014-05. <\/p>\n
By looking at the photon polarization data, they claimed to have surpassed the gold 5 standard for announcing a discovery in physics. But recently, thats been walked back, as there could have been a systematic error at play: simple emission from our own Milky Way. <\/p>\n
Image credit: ESA \/ Planck Collaboration, via http:\/\/www.mpa-garching.mpg.de\/mpa\/institute\/news_archives\/news1101_planck\/news1101_planck-en-print.html<\/a>. <\/p>\n Later this month, the Planck team will release their results, and either confirm or refute BICEP2. Heres where we standon the eve of that announcement. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Read the original:<\/p>\n The Moment of Truth for BICEP2 (Synopsis) [Starts With A Bang]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Image credit: Caltech & CTCP All rights Reserved, viahttp:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/MCTCP\/astro.php. The paradigm of physicswith its interplay of data, theory and predictionis the most powerful in science. -Geoffrey West So earlier this year, the BICEP2 team shook up the world by announcing the discovery of primordial gravitational waves: a signal from the earliest stages of the Universe, going all the way back tobefore the Big Bang! Image credit:the BICEP2 collaboration, viahttp:\/\/www.cfa.harvard.edu\/news\/2014-05 Continue reading