Some theorists are advising that we put the champagne back in the fridge… at least for now. Theoretical physicists and cosmologists James Dent, Lawrence Krauss, and Harsh Mathur have submitted a brief paper (arXiv:1403.5166 [astro-ph.CO]) stating that, while groundbreaking, the BICEP2 Collaboration findings have yet to rule out all possible non-inflation sources of the observed B-mode polarization patterns and the surprisingly large value of r, the ratio of power in tensor modes to scalar density perturbations.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 02:42:31 +0000
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