Polarisation

The first concrete evidence of Cosmic Inflation?
TBC

It was announced on Monday that the Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarisation 2 (BICEP2 – don’t you love projects acronyms?) experiment at the South Pole found a special pattern in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The pattern they found is the B-mode polarisation signal in the CMB.  Waves that can oscillate in more than one orientation […]

19 March 2014