Tag: cosmic microwave background

• Some thoughts on BICEP2 and dust

  [ Quick advertisement: my newest online class, “Gravity and Orbits”, starts a week from today. Sign up now, and please tell your friends! ] Late last week, researchers with the Planck cosmic microwave background observatory released the newest analysis of their data. This combined the Planck data with the BICEP2 polarization data that caused such…

  Matthew R. Francis

  February 2, 2015

  Cosmology

  BICEP2, cosmic microwave background, gravitational waves, inflation, Planck