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Last Week's Announcement About Gravitational Waves and Inflation May Be Wrong
KentuckyFC (1144503) writes "If you've been living under a stone, you might not have heard last week's announcement that astrophysicists from the BICEP2 experiment have found the first evidence of two extraordinary things. The first is primordial gravitational waves--ripples in spacetime from the very first moments after the Big Bang. The second is that these waves are evidence of inflation, the theory that the universe expanded rapidly, by twenty orders of magnitude in the blink of an eye after the Big Bang. But that can only be possible if the gravitational waves formed before inflation occurred. Now critics have begun to mutter that the waves might have formed later and so provide no evidence of inflation. The new thinking is that as the universe cooled down after inflation, various phase changes occurred in the Universe which generated the laws of physics we see today. These phase changes would have been violent events that generated their own ripples in space time, which would look very much like the primordial gravitational waves that the BICEP2 team claims to have found. So the BICEP2 team must rule out this possibility before they can claim evidence of inflation. But the critics say the data does not yet allow this to be done. That doesn't mean inflation didn't occur. Indeed, the critics say this is still the most likely explanation. But until the phase change possibility is ruled out, the result must be considered ambiguous. So put the champagne back in the fridge."
Never been a problem with the Climate "Scientists"
I am amused by AGW Apparatchiks. Because that's what AGW is, a political movement, not science and not religion.
It seeks to control what people drive, where they drive, when they drive, where they live, what they use to fuel the vehicles, heat their homes, cool their homes, etc. etc. etc. Using these controls, they want to move on to wealth distribution because they can argue that wealthier people produce more C02 (But they ignore Algore and China because they are politically correct)
And it has the stink of totalitarianism to it. Some what to send "deniers" to jail
The very fact they use "denier" stinks of political condemnation by the Global Warming Nazis.
Major newspapers censors dissenting opinions
Carbon taxes seek to punish industries that have broken no laws and has put people out of work.
And the science of it is laughable. Computer models drive all the predictions of doom and gloom. Funny thing is, they can't predict the past and they certainly haven't predicted the future...at least the last 17 years. So they move the goal posts. First, it was 5 years doesn't show no warming, that takes 10 years. Then after ten years, it was 15. After 15, It's now...what? Who knows? If they were smart, they'd go for 100, just to be safe.
Global Warming is to Science what Piers Anthony is to Journalism; a side show of freaks and grant seekers.