But then there is a risk that it will seem more right than it would otherwise.
Some fear it was just cosmic dust affecting the readings.
From New Scientist:
“Everyone wants BICEP2 to be right,” Will Kinney of the University at Buffalo, New York, told a packed auditorium. “Because if it is, we are going to be doing incredibly precise physics on the inflationary model within the foreseeable future. And it’s going to be really cool.”
At the world’s largest meeting of cosmologists,
Astronomers and cosmologists at the International Conference on Particle Physics and Cosmology (COSMO) duked it out over how their models for the universe would be affected in two futures: one in which the results hold, the other in which dust blows them away.
We’ll see what happens.
A meeting of cosmologists? In a single universe? See also:
As if the multiverse wasn’t bizarre enough …meet Many Worlds
and
But who needs reality-based thinking anyway? Not the new cosmologists
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I now consider the gravitational wave findings to be thoroughly discredited,,
It is interesting to note what inflation was originally ‘invented’ for. Inflation was invented by materialists to ‘explain away’ fine-tuning of the ‘flatness’ of the universe as well as the fine-tuning (i.e. roundness) of the Cosmic Background radiation.
It is good to remember that shortly prior to the now discredited gravitational wave findings, one of cosmic inflation theory’s own creators had finally admitted to serious theoretical shortcomings in inflation,,
A criticism about inflation exasperating, instead of helping, the fine-tuning problem, by Roger Penrose who deduced the 1 in 10^10^123 number for the initial entropic state of the universe, is here:
Also of interest, at about the same time, (mid-March 2014), as the now discredited polarisation/gravitation-wave (i.e. inflation) findings were released with great fanfare from the media to the public, another paper was also released to the public. The paper was released much less fanfare from the press. In fact I don’t think a single science news source covered the release then nor have any covered it since.
The ‘pre-print’ paper was released at, appropriately enough, a church in New Orleans during the Craig-Carroll debate at the “Greer-Heard Point/Counterpoint Forum on Cosmology and Existence of God”. The paper, like the gravitational wave findings, also deals with reading certain properties of light coming from the early universe, But what dramatically separates these two papers/findings is that, one, the Intelligent Design paper featured a prescient prediction prior to the discovery of evidence supporting its hypothesis, and two, the evidence discovered for the hypothesis is far more trustworthy/robust in its integrity than the polarisation evidence for gravitational waves turned out to be.
Here is that Intelligent Design paper that was, and still is, ignored by the larger scientific community:
Here is the video of Dr. Collins announcing the paper at the forum:
That a highly dubious finding in science supporting inflation would trump a highly successful finding in science supporting a hypothesis of Intelligent Design, in terms of the excitement it generated in the press, is a sad testimony to the state of science in America today.
supplemental note, here is a trailer of a soon to be released documentary that ought to ruffle a few atheistic/materialistic feathers since it dares to provide hard evidence that humans are ‘special’ in the universe:
I won’t hear a word against the ‘Multiworld of the Gaps’, Denyse.
It’s so much more plausible than the notion of a Creator, which so many of the greatest minds in the history of thought up to the present day, have espoused.