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We’ve Discovered Inflation! Now What?
Polarization patterns imprinted in the CMB. Image Credit: CfA
Days like these make being an astrophysicist interesting. On the one hand, there is the announcement of BICEP2 that the long-suspected theory of an inflationary big bang is actually true. It’s the type of discovery that makes you want to grab random people off the street and tell them what an amazing thing the Universe is. On the other hand, this is exactly the type of moment when we should be calm, and push back on the claims made by one research team. So let’s take a deep breath and look at what we know, and what we don’t.(…)
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