A preview of the data from the balloon mission, presented at a recent
meeting on cosmology, hints that the new, sharper view of the ripples will provide even more evidence of a flat universe, created by an extraordinarily fast inflation of space within a fraction of a second after the big bang.
Not exact matches
I was immersed in the American Chemical Society's national
meeting in Dallas this week, which meant that I could not catch more than wisps of the thrilling announcement from
cosmology on Monday that could potentially confirm the prediction of inflation.
In part 1 of this podcast, cosmologists Alan Guth from M.I.T., Arizona State University's Lawrence Krauss, John Carlstrom from the University of Chicago, and Fermilab's Scott Dodelson discuss the state of
cosmology — and the universe's possible dismal future — at a press conference at the annual
meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago
on February 16th