Cosmology; Planck data now available (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, February 13, 2015, 20:31 (3571 days ago) @ David Turell

Stars appeared later than thought. No evidence of gravitational waves. Findings are consistent with inflation theory. No mention of multiverses:-http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-31145520-http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=7526-Peter Woit's comment:-"For about as long as I can remember, string theorists and multiverse fans have been pointing to Planck data as the test of their ideas. For cosmic strings, the last Planck data release had a paper ruling them out. I don't see a paper on this topic out or projected for the new data, it seems that this is now something not even worth looking for.-"We've also been hearing for years that Planck will test supposed evidence of bubble collisions indicating other universes, see for instance this article about this paper, where the article states that-
"Data from the Planck telescope should resolve the question once and for all.-"I don't see anything in the new data even looking for this. Has it already been ruled out, without any publicity, or did the Planck people think it was something not worth even looking for?"-Basically no evidence for multiverses presented.