The South Pole Telescope has seen B-mode polarization in the CMB
Posted on 03/19/2014 10:05:07 AM PDT by Allen In Texas Hill Country
"The first evidence for the primordial B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) has been detected by astronomers working on the Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (BICEP2) telescope at the South Pole.".........
(Excerpt) Read more at physicsworld.com ...
Relative to what?
The discovery of B-mode polarization in the CMB would be an important observation, but let's not get carried away.
I was going to say something just like that. Well, sort of like that. Without the words I don't understand, that is. Which pretty much restricts my post to "The" and "let's not".
It seems obvious that cosmic inflation has taken its toll. Do you realize what it would cost my town to build even one Death Star these days?
Please leave my relatives out of this. Their prison time should be punishment enough.
I thought this was a thread on the high price of gas from Mars.
The South Pole Telescope has seen B-mode polarization in the CMB
They weren’t there. In prison.
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