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A big-bang theory gets a big boost: Evidence that vast cosmos was created in split second
By Joel Achenbach, Published: March 17E-mail the writer
In the beginning, the universe got very big very fast, transforming itself in a fraction of an instant from something almost infinitesimally small to something imponderably vast, a cosmos so huge that no one will ever be able to see it all.
This is the premise of an idea called cosmic inflation — a powerful twist on the big-bang theory — and Monday it received a major boost from an experiment at the South Pole called BICEP2. A team of astronomers led by John Kovac of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced that it had detected ripples from gravitational waves created in a violent inflationary event at the dawn of time.
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Ripples from the Big Bang
“We’re very excited to present our results because they seem to match the prediction of the theory so closely,” Kovac said in an interview. “But it’s the case that science can never actually prove a theory to be true. There could always be an alternative explanation that we haven’t been clever enough to think of.”
The reaction in the scientific community was cautiously exultant. The new result was hailed as potentially one of the biggest discoveries of the past two decades.
More at link: A big-bang theory gets a big boost: Evidence that vast cosmos were created in split second - The Washington Post
By Joel Achenbach, Published: March 17E-mail the writer
In the beginning, the universe got very big very fast, transforming itself in a fraction of an instant from something almost infinitesimally small to something imponderably vast, a cosmos so huge that no one will ever be able to see it all.
This is the premise of an idea called cosmic inflation — a powerful twist on the big-bang theory — and Monday it received a major boost from an experiment at the South Pole called BICEP2. A team of astronomers led by John Kovac of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced that it had detected ripples from gravitational waves created in a violent inflationary event at the dawn of time.
Graphic
Ripples from the Big Bang
“We’re very excited to present our results because they seem to match the prediction of the theory so closely,” Kovac said in an interview. “But it’s the case that science can never actually prove a theory to be true. There could always be an alternative explanation that we haven’t been clever enough to think of.”
The reaction in the scientific community was cautiously exultant. The new result was hailed as potentially one of the biggest discoveries of the past two decades.
More at link: A big-bang theory gets a big boost: Evidence that vast cosmos were created in split second - The Washington Post
Creationists are excited!
Posted on March 18, 2014 by Louis Hissink
It seems the creationists, those of the liberal kind, are very excited about the discovery of some subtle fluctuations in the ‘hazy’ microwave glow left from the Big Bang some 14 billion years ago.
Apparently they discovered gravitational waves reaching back to just 380,000 years after the Big Bang. (Source)
And we now have exotic forces that drove ‘space’ and ‘time’ apart.
And the Big Bang is when “the universe exploded in all directions from a single point of infinitely dense energy”.
I suppose if your culture is based on a belief in a creative deity then your science needs to be compliant and consistent with that belief; religion driving science, in other words.
My nonsense runs the modern world yours supplies holly-wood with scripts.
Posted on March 18, 2014 by Louis Hissink
It seems the creationists, those of the liberal kind, are very excited about the discovery of some subtle fluctuations in the ‘hazy’ microwave glow left from the Big Bang some 14 billion years ago.
Apparently they discovered gravitational waves reaching back to just 380,000 years after the Big Bang. (Source)
And we now have exotic forces that drove ‘space’ and ‘time’ apart.
And the Big Bang is when “the universe exploded in all directions from a single point of infinitely dense energy”.
I suppose if your culture is based on a belief in a creative deity then your science needs to be compliant and consistent with that belief; religion driving science, in other words.
My nonsense runs the modern world yours supplies holly-wood with scripts.
It forgets to mention how long it took for 'it' to become that small.
That's true.
I smell a Nobel.
Watch a physicist learn there’s evidence his cosmic inflation theory is true
Big news from the dawn of time: A team of researchers working at the South Pole announced Monday that they had detected ripples from gravitational waves – the first evidence of cosmic inflation.
Cosmic inflation is, to borrow a phrase from my colleague Joel Achenbach, something that “makes the big bang even bangier.” It’s the idea that the universe exponentially grew in a fraction of a second, rather merely rapidly expanding. The researchers at the South Pole were able to detect gravitational waves (ripples that squeeze space as they travel) and what they deemed the first direct evidence of this inflation occurring billions of years ago.
There’s something truly wonderful about Linde’s response to hearing something he’s wanted to hear for, as he says, 30 years. Watch his reaction here:
lol I hope not. He's funny. He's got that "my daddy can beat up your daddy", "my whatsit is better than your whatsit", "you can't {add a verb} as good as me", etc. little boy attitude.
..... and its bible is thunderbolts. No other source is needed because it is its own reference and verification. lol
Sounds an awful lot like another religion of which I have heard.
Well he believes that skin pigmentation is related to intelligence (white being the most intelligent). Nuff said.
I don't really have any faves. I just respect the ones that are accurate, loyal to ALL the known laws, facts, and evidence, and comprehensive in their work.
Exactly my point. lol He's freakin funny.
Like arguing with this.Exactly my point. lol He's freakin funny.
Need a hammer to get your point across.
A jackhammer.
Faraday and Maxwell not good enough eh Tesla just a punk what? Plasma rules buddy , get used to it.