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Breaking News: Evidence for gravitational waves in the CMB!

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Breaking News: Evidence for gravitational waves in the CMB!
Alex K Offline
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Breaking News: Evidence for gravitational waves in the CMB!
March 17, 2014 at 11:46 am (This post was last modified: March 17, 2014 at 12:44 pm by Alex K.)
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Whohoo! If they didn't mess up the backgrounds, this is significantly away from r=0.

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Lol, the reaction of Renata Kallosh and Andrej Linde is so cute

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlfIVEy_YOA#t=61
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RE: Breaking News: Evidence for gravitational waves in the CMB!
March 17, 2014 at 1:33 pm
CMB? Cash Money Brothers?
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RE: Breaking News: Evidence for gravitational waves in the CMB!
March 17, 2014 at 1:59 pm
(March 17, 2014 at 1:33 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: CMB? Cash Money Brothers?

Christus Mansionem Benedictat,

or alternatively, Cosmic Microwave Background
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RE: Breaking News: Evidence for gravitational waves in the CMB!
March 17, 2014 at 3:22 pm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26605974
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RE: Breaking News: Evidence for gravitational waves in the CMB!
March 17, 2014 at 4:16 pm
(March 17, 2014 at 11:46 am)Alex K Wrote: [Image: running_rvsns.png]

I dunno, man. That thing looks suspiciously like god.

And by "god" I mean a weird pink phallus entering a funny blue hole.

Oh! I get it! The BIG BANG! Ah ha ha! You scientists are such cards!
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RE: Breaking News: Evidence for gravitational waves in the CMB!
March 17, 2014 at 4:31 pm
I assume this means the wave length of the gravity wave does not scale with expansion of the universe.
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RE: Breaking News: Evidence for gravitational waves in the CMB!
March 17, 2014 at 5:23 pm
(March 17, 2014 at 4:31 pm)Chuck Wrote: I assume this means the wave length of the gravity wave does not scale with expansion of the universe.
That would be very unusual, why do you think that?
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RE: Breaking News: Evidence for gravitational waves in the CMB!
March 17, 2014 at 5:52 pm
(March 17, 2014 at 4:31 pm)Chuck Wrote: I assume this means the wave length of the gravity wave does not scale with expansion of the universe.

From what I understand, it's quite the opposite.
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RE: Breaking News: Evidence for gravitational waves in the CMB!
March 19, 2014 at 8:14 pm
I read about this earlier today--cool stuff!
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