Cosmic inflation: 'Spectacular' discovery hailed

[dazdon]

Cosmic inflation: 'Spectacular' discovery hailed

Scientists say they have extraordinary new evidence to support a Big Bang Theory for the origin of the Universe.

Researchers believe they have found the signal left in the sky by the super-rapid expansion of space that must have occurred just fractions of a second after everything came into being.

It takes the form of a distinctive twist in the oldest light detectable with telescopes.

The work will be scrutinised carefully, but already there is talk of a Nobel.

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[Damocles]

Leave it to the BBC to say:

"New science discovery: Here's no real information about it"

This is actually quite a large deal. One physicist wrote that outside of finding life on another planet or directly detecting dark matter this is the biggest near-present discovery we could have made.

To simplify it grossly, this is pretty much the first observable evidence for inflation in the early observable Universe. Indirect evidence, but it meets enough predictions that we can start focusing on exactly which model of inflationary theory is the correct one.

 

[dazdon]

Leave it to the BBC to say:

"New science discovery: Here's no real information about it"

This is actually quite a large deal. One physicist wrote that outside of finding life on another planet or directly detecting dark matter this is the biggest near-present discovery we could have made.

To simplify it grossly, this is pretty much the first observable evidence for inflation in the early observable Universe. Indirect evidence, but it meets enough predictions that we can start focusing on exactly which model of inflationary theory is the correct one.

I thought this might have been of some interest to you m8.

Obviously the background of this information and the impact on the world of physics is lost on the casual reader but I thought that the BBC could have had a bigger piece on it if it was as important as it initially sounds.

 

[Skashion]

Give people time to write something for fuck sake. We'll get a lot more over the next week or so.

 

[nelsons willie]

Have they announced it yet? I thought i heard on the wireless that they are going to announce it. A bit like them saying the PM will say such and such in his speech later today.

 

[BlueHammer85]

The question will be ... what caused the signal that set the super-rapid expansion ?

 

[Lancet Fluke]

The question will be ... what caused the signal that set the super-rapid expansion ?

I think that's a question we've all asked at one time or another.

 

[Gelsons Dad]

Nice to have a good news story for a change.
Whilst I only have a very rudimentary understanding of "Inflation" I guess this will focus future research which can only be a good thing.

 

[Damocles]

Give people time to write something for fuck sake. We'll get a lot more over the next week or so.

To be fair it was leaked yesterday, so many of the big news agencies should really have had something prepped.

 

[Damocles]

That's a decent explanation