evidence of expanding universe may have been just dirt....
Posted by
x (aka dmuck)
Jan 30 '15, 13:24
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"It was a huge win for Big Bang supporters when, in March 2014, a team of astronomers claimed they had found direct evidence to support the concept of cosmic inflation—the super-rapid expansion of the Universe that occurred just fractions of a second after it exploded into existence. The discovery was monumental, completely altering our perception of the early moments of space and time. “This is huge, as big as it gets,” Marc Kamionkowski, a theoretical physicist at Johns Hopkins University who was not part of the team, told the New York Times.
But alas, sometimes these things are just too good to be true. In a new paper (that leaked a week early), the same researchers who made the momentous discovery say that they were probably mistaken about their findings. It turns out that cosmic dust within our own galaxy muddled the signals detected by their instrument BICEP2, a huge telescope near the South Pole. So the primordial signatures they thought they had found were actually just a bunch of space trash."
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