Now people are wondering whether it’s true that the big bang gravitational waves find proved stuff like the multiverse:
The news that ripples in space-time, called gravitational waves, had been spotted stunned the physics community earlier this year. This week, rumours began swirling that the scientists who reported the find have now admitted to making a mistake. The team missed a key detail in its analysis of galactic dust, the rumours suggest, making it more likely that the signal came from a source other than gravitational waves.
But the team’s response to this claim is unequivocal: “We’ve done no such thing,” says principal investigator John Kovac at Harvard University. The validity of the discovery won’t be known until another group either supports or opposes their finding, which could happen later this year.
Our Rob Sheldon had done some wondering in advance of all this. Sheldon’s view is that, using Occam’s razor, dust should have been the first hypothesis.The logic of the multiverse explains why it ended up being the last. Like,the last shall be firsta nd the first shall be totally out to lunch, so …