The May 29 report in NATURE describes a faint twisting of the CMB, discovered using a South Pole based radio telescope called BICEP2, which seemed to confirm cosmic inflation. As we know from reading BBNH, cosmic inflation, like dark matter, is a huge hypothetical fudge factor to make the math work for BB.
The NATURE article updates the original BICEP2 discovery, concluding “No evidence for or against gravitational waves.”, and further, that “Dust could account for most of the signal.”.
The perpetual search for the BB holy grail continues…
