A Polarizing Discovery About the Big Bang!
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More about the Big Bang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3MWRvLndzs
More about the Cosmic Background Radiation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_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
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