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A joint analysis of Planck and BICEP2 B modes including dust polarization uncertainty — mentioned by jwuphysics

Fri, 29 Aug 2014 15:17:55 GMT

I study astrophysics, so I won't be able to say much about SUSY or string theories or conformal field theories. I do agree that we're living in a golden age of physics! But your second and third points, inflation and SUSY-- those are definitely not confirmed. In fact, the primordial gravitational waves from BICEP2 are almost certainly dust contamination signal (e.g., http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.5857). The discovery of supersymmetric particles would also be extremely shocking to me, since my institution is heavily involved in CERN LHC experiments, and I haven't heard any hints of a discovery…

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A joint analysis of Planck and BICEP2 B modes including dust polarization uncertainty — mentioned by T-A

Thu, 05 Jun 2014 12:33:57 GMT

The "random blog posts" are by Adam Falkowski, a particle physicist who has been following the controversy over BICEP2 from the start. They document how opinion has been swinging over time. Steinhardt is not "the guy who the first source is referencing". The two references in the first source are 1) http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.5857 , by Mortonson and Seljak, both at LBNL and UC 2) http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.7351 , by Faluger, Hill and Spergel, from IAS, NYU and Princeton, respectively. As you may have noticed, none of them is Steinhardt.

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