Cosmic inflation: Dust finally settles on BICEP2 results
Reports of evidence of cosmic inflation may have been, well, overblown.
General Physics
Feb 4, 2015
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The risks of blowing your own trumpet too soon on research
It was dubbed a "spectacular" discovery – even "Nobel prize-worthy".
General Physics
Sep 30, 2014
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Gravitational waves according to Planck
Scientists of the Planck collaboration, and in particular the Trieste team, have conducted a series of in-depth checks on the discovery recently publicized by the Antarctic Observatory, which announced last spring that it ...
Astronomy
Sep 22, 2014
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Has dust clouded the discovery of gravitational waves?
It's almost three months since a team of scientists announced it had detected polarised light from the afterglow of the Big Bang. But questions are still being asked about whether cosmic dust may have clouded their discovery.
Astronomy
Jun 4, 2014
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Have cosmologists lost their minds in the multiverse?
The recent BICEP2 observations – of swirls in the polarisation of the cosmic microwave background – have been proclaimed as many things, from evidence of the Big Bang and gravitational waves to something strange called ...
General Physics
May 13, 2014
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Alan Guth on new insights into the 'Big Bang'
Earlier this week, scientists announced that a telescope observing faint echoes of the so-called "Big Bang" had found evidence of the universe's nearly instantaneous expansion from a mere dot into a dense ball containing ...
General Physics
Mar 20, 2014
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Setting a trap for gravity waves
In 1996 Uros Seljak was a postdoc at Harvard, contemplating ways to extract information from the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The distribution of anisotropies, slight temperature differences, in the CMB had much to ...
General Physics
Mar 19, 2014
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First hints of gravitational waves in the Big Bang's afterglow
Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics in the US have announced overnight what they believe is the indirect detection of gravitational waves in the afterglow of the Big Bang.
Astronomy
Mar 18, 2014
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NASA to Probe the Universe's First Moments
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sophisticated new technologies created by NASA and university scientists are enabling them to build an instrument designed to probe the first moments of the universe's existence.
Space Exploration
Apr 29, 2010
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New telescopes to study the aftermath of the Big Bang
Astronomers are currently pushing the frontiers of astronomy. At this very moment, observatories like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are visualizing the earliest stars and galaxies in the universe, which formed during ...
Astronomy
Nov 1, 2023
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