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"Father of Inflation" Professor SURPRISED w/ New Discovery

submitted by eric3579

1 decade 1 month 2 weeks ago

Assistant Professor Chao-Lin Kuo surprises Professor Andrei Linde with evidence that supports cosmic inflation theory. The discovery, made by Kuo and his colleagues at the BICEP2 experiment, represents the first images of gravitational waves, or ripples in space-time. These waves have been described as the "first tremors of the Big Bang." -yt

Further explanation
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/march/physics-cosmic-inflation-031714.html

Thanks @blahpook for providing the article explaining the making of the video.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/03/what-its-like-to-be-right-about-the-big-bang-genesis-of-a-viral-video/284474/

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A bit of the background and discovery

Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Monday, March 17th, 2014 12:15pm PDT - promote requested by original submitter eric3579.

toferyu says...

Awesome :-D

: )

good thing he was home, like.. y'know, to answer the door and everything.

I'm going with genuine on this one @Trancecoach

Agreed. This article on the Atlantic goes into the background of the video itself. The descriptions of the couple's reactions are great. Really charming.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/03/what-its-like-to-be-right-about-the-big-bang-genesis-of-a-viral-video/284474/

I'm going with genuine on this one @Trancecoach

*promote

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Monday, March 17th, 2014 12:15pm PDT - promote requested by blahpook.

Science: it's good news!

Anyone think Nobel prize is in this guys wheelhouse ...(wonder if im using that in an appropriate way) *shrugs*

"It's five sigma at point two". Now I know how to impress physicist chicks.

In actuality, I'm reeling at this discovery. Finally, solid evidence of gravitational waves and basically staring at the Big Bang. Astrophysics is advancing so fast these days.

Minute Physics sheds a bit of light

SciShow - The Theory of Everything...A Little Bit Closer has been added as a related post - related requested by Fantomas on that post.

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