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The BICEP2 telescope at twilight at the South Pole. The supporting data for the inflation of the universe have also gone off into the sunset. Steffen Richter, Harvard University

Failure in real science is good – and different from phony controversies

Chad Orzel, Union College

Last March, the BICEP2 collaboration announced that they had used a microwave telescope at the South Pole to detect primordial gravitational waves. These tiny ripples in spacetime would be the first proof…
Planck telescope and the Cosmic microwave background. ESA and Planck

BICEP2 ‘gravity wave’ finding clouded by interstellar dust

Robert Crittenden, University of Portsmouth

In March, scientists working on the BICEP2 experiment, a microwave telescope based at the South Pole, announced that they had seen ‘gravity waves’ from the early universe, created just after the Big Bang…

Related Topics

  1. Astronomy
  2. BICEP2
  3. cosmic distance ladder
  4. Cosmic microwave background
  5. Cosmology
  6. Cosmology series
  7. Edwin Hubble
  8. Gravitational waves
  9. NASA
  10. standard model of cosmology

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