Tag: inflation

• What happened in the first instants after the Big Bang?

  One of the biggest science stories of 2014 came out of the BICEP2 cosmic microwave background polarization experiment. Last spring, the BICEP2 researchers announced they had measured something known as B-mode or tensor-mode polarization, a particular twisting of light that is the hallmark of primordial gravitational waves. Those waves in turn would be a strong…

  Matthew R. Francis

  October 16, 2014

  Cosmology

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