by Richard Easther | Jan 30, 2015 | Cosmology
The on-again off-again discovery of the “smoking gun of inflation” is now firmly set to “off”. The latest development is an analysis combining data from the Planck spacecraft, the BICEP2 telescope at the South Pole (and the source of the original...
by Richard Easther | Sep 23, 2014 | Cosmology
Today, another chapter has been added to the increasingly convoluted BICEP2 saga [see here, here, here and here for my accounts of previous developments]. The story began on March 21st with a media conference heard around the world that heralded a “5 sigma” detection...
by Richard Easther | Mar 14, 2014 | Cosmology
Today the cosmology community is full of chatter about an impending announcement – I heard the story from people on three continents. Moreover, the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard has scheduled a media conference on Monday with the promise of a major...
by Richard Easther | Mar 21, 2013 | Cosmology
RELOAD FOR UPDATES [Lo-tech live blogging!] THE DAY AFTER: t work, digesting the Planck data. The commentary below ran a bit technical; once I have my own thoughts together I will write them down… 12:49 AM NZST oo distracted to update the...
