A Polarizing Discovery About the Big Bang!

2014-03-19

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More about the Big Bang: /youtube/video/q3MWRvLndzs

More about the Cosmic Background Radiation: /youtube/video/_mZQ-5-KYHw

And special thanks to Sean Carroll and Mark Trodden for their comments and discussion in the making of this video.

Links to more info about the BICEP experiment:

http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2014-05

http://bicepkeck.org/

http://www.caltech.edu/content/building-bicep2-conversation-jamie-bock

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/03/17/evidence_of_inflation_astronomers_detect_gravitational_waves_from_the_early.html

Created by Henry Reich

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