Far out cosmology: More Bicep2 skepticism (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, January 31, 2015, 13:44 (3367 days ago) @ David Turell
edited by David Turell, Saturday, January 31, 2015, 14:18

Biceps2 is definitely wrong. No gravitational waves found as yet. Planck satellite settled the issue. It doesn't mean the waves don't exist, there are suspicious signs in the data.:-http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/31/us/a-speck-of-interstellar-dust-rebuts-a-big-bang-theory.html?emc=edit_th_20150131&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=60788861&_r=0-"The Bicep/Planck analysis was led by Dr. Pryke, one of the four Bicep principal investigators. Brendan Crill, of the California Institute of Technology and a member of Planck, acted as a liaison between the groups. They had planned to post their paper Monday, but the data was posted early, apparently by accident. It was soon taken down, but not before it set off an outburst of Twitter messages and hasty news releases.-"A paper is to be posted to the Bicep website and has been submitted to the journal Physical Review Letters.-"But it will be far from the final word. A flotilla of experiments devoted to the cause are underway, studying a thin haze of microwaves, known as cosmic background radiation, left from the Big Bang, when the cosmos was about 380,000 years old. Among them is a sister experiment to Bicep called Spider, led by Bill Jones of Princeton and involving a balloon-borne telescope that just completed a trip around Antarctica, as well as Bicep's own Keck Array and the recently installed Bicep3.-"At stake is an idea that has galvanized cosmologists since Alan Guth of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology invented it in 1979. Inflation theory holds that the universe had a violent and brief surge of expansion in the earliest moments, driven by a mysterious force field that exerted negative gravity. It would explain such things as why the universe looks so uniform and where galaxies come from — quantum dents in the inflating cosmos."-Another version of the story:-http://phys.org/news/2015-01-planck-gravitational-elusive.html