18 Mar
2014
18 Mar
'14
7:46 a.m.
Fantastic !
This is a Nobel prize discovery ! As big as DE.
In your face ekpyrotic scenario... :)
b.
ps. this is indirect of course as they observed CMB
On Tuesday 18 of March 2014 00:26:08 Tomasz Kazimierczak wrote:
Hi all,
Hot news in media, according to which there is detection of gravitational waves by the BICEP2 experiment. It is something about messuring b-mode polarisation of CMB, that's all what I undersdand.
Links:
media: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/march/physics-cosmic-inflation-031714.h tml project: http://bicepkeck.org/ paper:http://bicepkeck.org/b2_respap_arxiv_v1.pdf
Can we say it is a direct evidence for gravitational waves or rather it should be said indirect?
Pozdr, Tomek
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