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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