BICEP2: New Evidence Of Cosmic Inflation!
[For your reference if you can’t follow this post: My History of the Universe, and a primer to help you understand what’s going on today.] I’m still updating this post as more information comes in and...
View ArticleIf It Holds Up, What Might BICEP2’s Discovery Mean?
Well, yesterday was quite a day, and I’m still sifting through the consequences. First things first. As with all major claims of discovery, considerable caution is advised until the BICEP2 measurement...
View ArticleWhich Parts of the Big Bang Theory are Reliable, and Why?
Familiar throughout our international culture, the “Big Bang” is well-known as the theory that scientists use to describe and explain the history of the universe. But the theory is not a single...
View ArticleDid BICEP2 Detect Gravitational Waves Directly or Indirectly?
A few weeks ago there was (justified) hullabaloo following the release of results from the BICEP2 experiment, which (if correct as an experiment, and if correctly interpreted) may indicate the...
View ArticleWill BICEP2 Lose Some of Its Muscle?
A scientific controversy has been brewing concerning the results of BICEP2, the experiment that measured polarized microwaves coming from a patch of the sky, and whose measurement has been widely...
View ArticleThe BICEP2 Dust-Up Continues
The controversy continues to develop over the interpretation of the results from BICEP2, the experiment that detected “B-mode” polarization in the sky, and was hailed as potential evidence of...
View ArticleBICEP2’s Cosmic Polarization: Published, Reduced in Strength
I’m busy dealing with the challenges of being in a quantum superposition, but you’ve probably heard: BICEP2’s paper is now published, with some of its implicit and explicit claims watered down after...
View ArticleHow Evidence for Cosmic Inflation Was Reduced to Dust
Many of you will have read in the last week that unfortunately (though to no one’s surprise after seeing the data from the Planck satellite in the last few months) the BICEP2 experiment’s claim of a...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....