Cosmologists Cast Doubt on Inflation Evidence

(Before It's News)

Some physicists still have questions on the true origin of the BICEP2 findings…

It was just a week ago that the news blew through the scientific world like a storm: researchers from the BICEP2 project at the South Pole Telescope had detected unambiguous evidence of primordial gravitational waves in the cosmic microwave background, the residual rippling of space and time created by the sudden inflation of the Universe less than a billionth of a billionth of a second after the Big Bang. With whispers of Nobel nominations quickly rising in the science news wings, the team’s findings were hailed as the best direct evidence yet of cosmic inflation, possibly even supporting the existence of a multitude of other universes besides our own.

That is, if they really do indicate what they appear to. Some theorists are advising that we “put the champagne back in the fridge”… at least for now.

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Post tags: arXiv, BICEP2, Big Bang, Cosmology, Gravitational Waves, Harsh Mathur, James Dent, Lawrence Krauss, Physics, universe

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