► Finally, in this week's Science editorial, Michael S. Turner makes a plea for curiosity - based science, pointing to scientific connections between two
recent momentous discoveries, the
Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (BICEP2) detection of evidence of gravitational waves in the cosmic microwave background (still subject to confirmation) and the detection of the Hi
Background Imaging of
Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (BICEP2) detection of evidence of gravitational waves in the cosmic microwave background (still subject to confirmation) and the detection of the Higgs
Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (BICEP2) detection of evidence of gravitational waves in the
cosmic microwave background (still subject to confirmation) and the detection of the Higgs
cosmic microwave background (still subject to confirmation) and the detection of the Hi
background (still subject to confirmation) and the detection of the Higgs boson.
Recent experiments including BOSS and the Planck satellite study of the
cosmic microwave background put the BAO scale, as measured in today's universe, at very close to 450 million light years — a «standard ruler» for measuring expansion.
In this lecture, George Efstathiou will describe how
recent measurements of the
cosmic microwave background radiation made with the Planck Satellite can be used to answer these questions and to elucidate what happened within 10 - 35 seconds of the creation of our Universe.
As
recent experiments such as the hugely successful WMAP satellite have demonstrated, the
Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) provides a clean laboratory for studying the physics of the early Universe.