The BICEP2 Consortium's Big Bang "Discovery": A Look Back, Pt 2

September 21, 2018 00:11:03
The BICEP2 Consortium's Big Bang "Discovery": A Look Back, Pt 2
Intelligent Design the Future
The BICEP2 Consortium's Big Bang "Discovery": A Look Back, Pt 2

Sep 21 2018 | 00:11:03

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Show Notes

On this episode of ID the Future from the vault, physicist Rob Sheldon discusses the BICEP2 Consortium's apparent discovery of evidence for the inflationary model of the Big Bang, and the annoucement's impact on questions of cosmic fine-tuning. The consortium later withdrew their claim to have found the first evidence for the primordial “B-mode” polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). In part 2 here, Dr. Sheldon explains his questioning of whether the signal detected by BICEP2 was real.  Please consider donating to support the IDTF Podcast.

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