Galileo's Pendulum

UPDATE: My big article about the BICEP2 results is up at Ars Technica, so you should probably read that instead of this post. Rumors have percolated throughout the cosmology community, surrounding today’s press conference at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). So far, the rumors appear to be substantiated: researchers with the BICEP2 (Background Imaging…