After nearly a year of debate, it seems that the much heralded experimental evidence of inflationary physics was actually nothing more than dust. It is a bit of a disappointment for cosmologists, and especially for those who work in the field of cosmic inflation, but as with all of science the facts and the evidence must always take precedence over popular theories.

One year ago I wrote about an interesting new result from the BICEP experiment (original article), in which measurements of the p...
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