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Wilczek reckons we will not have the sensitivity to detect the influence of primordial gravitational waves in the CMB for at least 10 to 15 years, despite new high - resolution maps from the Planck satellite.

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Physicists could look for evidence of other universes using tools designed to measure ripples in spacetime — also known as primordial gravitational waves — that would have been generated by the universe's initial expansion from the Big Bang.

In 2002, Hawking bet his University of Cambridge colleague Neil Turok that cosmologists would soon discover primordial gravitational waves and so verify the theory of inflation.

A new study published in Physical Review Letters outlines how scientists could use gravitational wave experiments to test the existence of primordial black holes, gravity wells formed just moments after the Big Bang that some scientists have posited could be an explanation for dark matter.

If gravitational waves — ripples in space time — have a handedness, primordial particles could interact with them to form a dark matter superfluid that spreads through the cosmos

Such tools could map the spectrum of primordial gravitational waves and perhaps distinguish «kinks and bumps» within it that reveal the earliest and most epochal milestones in the universe's evolution.

The first glimpse of primordial gravitational waves is a landmark in our understanding of the universe — but what exactly are these all - important ripples?

From humanity's first, flawed foray to the surface of a comet to the celebrated discovery of (and less celebrated skepticism about) primordial gravitational waves, 2014 has brought some historic successes and failures in space science and physics.

DUST IN DEPTH The Planck satellite analyzed the same patch of sky, shown here within the white dots, that the BICEP2 telescope measured in a search for primordial gravitational waveIN DEPTH The Planck satellite analyzed the same patch of sky, shown here within the white dots, that the BICEP2 telescope measured in a search for primordial gravitational wavein a search for primordial gravitational waves.

Dust grains in the Galaxy could imprint a similar polarization pattern in the CMB as gravitational waves can, but based on several different predictions of the galactic contribution the researchers concluded that their data was more likely to originate from primordial gravitational waves.

The polarization pattern that BICEP2 detected in the CMB could effectively be a snapshot of primordial gravitational waves.

That's because using a mathematical tool called dimensional analysis, they found a positive link between the primordial gravitational waves and Planck's constant, which is used in quantum mechanics.

More information: The paper «Primordial black hole scenario for the gravitational wave event GW150914» will appear 28 July 2016 in Physical Review Letters.

Now, scientists have shown that the swirl pattern touted as evidence of primordial gravitational waves — ripples in space and time dating to the universe's explosive birth — could instead all come from magnetically aligned dust.