Tag Archives: BICEP2

Sunyaev–Zel’dovich effect

Posted on February 20, 2016 by PlatoHagel

The Sunyaev–Zel’dovich effect (often abbreviated as the SZ effect) is the result of high energy electrons distorting the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) through inverse Compton scattering, in which the low energy CMB photons receive an average energy boost during … Continue reading →

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BICEP 3

Posted on February 18, 2016 by PlatoHagel

See: Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation – Sixty Symbols *** See: BICEP: Robinson Gravitational Wave Background Telescope *** See Also: Science Dialogos of Eide

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Proofing BICEP2

Posted on July 2, 2014 by PlatoHagel

Inflation—the hypothesis that the Universe underwent a phase of superluminal expansion in a brief period following the big bang—has the potential of explaining, from first principles, why the Universe has the structure we see today. It could also solve outstanding … Continue reading →

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Ripples From The Big Bang

Posted on June 7, 2014 by PlatoHagel

*** See Also: Quantum Mechanics Smackdown The BICEP2 Dust-Up Continues Dialogos of Eide

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Multiverse or Universe? – Andre Linde (SETI Talks)

Posted on April 15, 2014 by PlatoHagel

Published on Jan 1, 2013 SETI Talks archive: http://seti.org/talks Cosmological observations show that the universe is very uniform on the maximally large scale accessible to our telescopes, and the same laws of physics operate in all of its parts that … Continue reading →

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The Map of B Mode Imprints

Posted on April 10, 2014 by PlatoHagel

Figure 3: Left: BICEP2 apodized E-mode and B-mode maps filtered to 50 < ℓ < 120. Right: The equivalent maps for the first of the lensed-ΛCDM+noise simulations. The color scale displays the E-mode scalar and B-mode pseudoscalar patterns while the lines display the equivalent … Continue reading →

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The Reference Frame: BICEP is good news for string gas cosmology

Posted on March 31, 2014 by PlatoHagel

The Reference Frame: BICEP is good news for string gas cosmology: Guest post by Robert Brandenberger of McGill University The indirect discovery of primordial gravitational waves on cosmological scales vi… Dialogos of Eide

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The Reference Frame: Axion monodromy inflation

Posted on March 28, 2014 by PlatoHagel

The Reference Frame: Axion monodromy inflation: Guest post by Prof Eva Silverstein, string theorist and cosmologist at Stanford & SLAC Let us assume that the BICEP2 result is confirm… First Direct Evidence of Cosmic Inflation- Harvard University Special Colloquium March … Continue reading →

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Are Artifacts of CMB Right Next to Me?

Posted on March 23, 2014 by PlatoHagel

 Looking back seems strange to me and that if one is to take such a position then evidence must exist in this very moment? Models of Earlier Events This may seem like a stupid question to some, but for me … Continue reading →

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BICEP2 Press Conference

Posted on March 21, 2014 by PlatoHagel

BICEP2 Technical Presentation Part 1 BICEP2 Technical Presentation Part 2 *** Lubos Motl is officially “link king.” :) See Also: BICEP2 Observatory in Antarctica Wayne Hu Primer Dialogos of Eide

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