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‘Big Bang Signal’ Could All Be Dust
- oldbuzzard 12y agoPerhaps this should be "Big Bang Gravitational Wave Signal" could all be dust. From the headline, I was expecting something more shocking about cosmic microwave background radiation[1] generally. That would be THE Big Bang signal in my book. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_cosmic_microwave_background_radiation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_cosmic_microwave_b...
- Vanayad 12y agoI was thinking the same thing :))
- lutorm 12y agoHaving spent my previous career studying the effects of interstellar dust (though not in this wavelength range), it's amazing how often I would be the buzz kill by arguing that something that someone saw actually probably could be explained by dust. It has major effects on the radiation we receive and its effects are sensitive to the exact details of how it's distributed and what it's composed of.
- mathattack 12y agoI like that this is funded by a mathematician turned hedge fund billionaire. :-)
- unseraphim 12y agoTo the sycophants who ejaculated their "Isn't science amazing?" jizz all over this and every other website (without troubling themselves to read the paper) when the news was first pumped out by the ignorant and self-serving media: suck it. It's OK, Sheldon. You can come home now.
- digital55 12y agoThis is the Planck analysis on the arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.5738 http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.5738