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Gravitational waves - finally, The topic cover Big bang, inflation and the CMB
TheAnt
post Mar 18 2014, 12:00 PM
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Ripples in the CMB finally show the effect of the cosmic inflation, a holy grail of cosmology and one achievement for the scientists involved.
In a double score it also give further support for the idea of inflation and gravity waves in the first moment after the big bang.

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- TheAnt   Gravitational waves - finally   Mar 18 2014, 12:00 PM
- - Vultur   Cool! (Now they just need to actually get one...   Mar 20 2014, 01:50 AM
|- - TheAnt   QUOTE (Vultur @ Mar 20 2014, 02:50 AM) So...   Mar 20 2014, 02:53 PM
- - centsworth_II   My recollection from having read Alan Guth's...   Mar 20 2014, 06:31 AM
- - Gerald   Inflation is mainly needed to explain the flatness...   Mar 20 2014, 11:12 AM
|- - AndyG   QUOTE (Gerald @ Mar 20 2014, 11:12 AM) Mu...   Mar 25 2014, 10:26 AM
- - Vultur   OK, thank you! So there is still thought to h...   Mar 21 2014, 05:57 AM
- - Gerald   In the strict sense, yes. The sequence of the fir...   Mar 21 2014, 12:35 PM
- - Vultur   Ah - thank you again!   Mar 21 2014, 11:51 PM
- - TheAnt   @Vultur Yes and no, the original Big bang theory d...   Mar 22 2014, 12:11 PM
- - dvandorn   How to say this correctly, here... One of the thi...   Mar 22 2014, 01:27 PM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Mar 22 2014, 05:27 AM) ...   Mar 22 2014, 03:38 PM
|- - TheAnt   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Mar 22 2014, 02:27 PM) ...   Mar 22 2014, 04:10 PM
- - MarsInMyLifetime   It is an interesting conundrum, Doug. I am no cosm...   Mar 22 2014, 03:40 PM
- - Doug M.   So, looking at the image: http://regmedia.co.uk/2...   Mar 25 2014, 09:02 AM
- - centsworth_II   If we're going to talk multiverse and many wor...   Mar 25 2014, 12:14 PM
- - centsworth_II   My job here is done.   Mar 25 2014, 05:32 PM
- - Holder of the Two Leashes   Some doubts about all this ... Physical Review Le...   Jun 23 2014, 03:28 PM
- - Gerald   Let's wait for the corresponding Planck papers...   Jun 23 2014, 04:11 PM
- - Gerald   A Joint Analysis of BICEP2/Keck Array and Planck D...   Feb 7 2015, 01:14 PM
- - TheAnt   QUOTE (Gerald @ Feb 7 2015, 02:14 PM) A J...   Feb 7 2015, 05:44 PM
- - fredk   QUOTE (TheAnt @ Feb 7 2015, 05:44 PM) Yes...   Feb 7 2015, 08:00 PM
- - TheAnt   Thank you for your nice reply fredk. =) A careful...   Feb 8 2015, 11:53 AM
- - fredk   QUOTE (TheAnt @ Feb 8 2015, 11:53 AM) The...   Feb 8 2015, 04:15 PM
- - Astro0   ADMIN: This topic has run afoul of forum rule 2.6 ...   Feb 8 2015, 07:03 PM

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