[SeekAndFind]

The proof of inflation has become proof of non-inflation? That’s what David Parkinson of the University of Queensland is now claiming from his own analysis of the results. Slezak reports: “Counter to what the BICEP2 collaboration said initially, Parkinson’s analysis suggests the BICEP2 results actually rule out any reasonable form of inflationary theory.” But there are several inflationary models. How many of them have been ruled out? “Most of them, to be honest,” replied Parkinson.

[GraceG]

Government Inflation is BIGGER in my opinion...

[SpaceBar]

The team behind the BICEP2 Telescope in Antarctica had observed telltale twists and turns in the polarisation of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB)

I would double check the data to make sure Raj and Howard weren't turning on and off an electric can opener.

[2nd Amendment]

You mean Sagan, deGrasse Tyson & Hawkins might be wrong! I guess God can relax now!

[Rockingham]

Modern physics is so far unable to make its two great discoveries, relativity and quantum mechanics, mesh with each other. Until that is accomplished, the nature of the universe will be uncertain and disputed.

[lbryce]

The ramifications of this most recent cosmic assertion are,
in a word, infinite.

[dangus]

My problem with inflation is that its the same sort of question-begging done by creation science. In a way, any model will beg a question until it can be experimentally confirmed. But the problem with inflation is that it throws away all normal laws for no reason other than that they could not have been.’

So if the universe could expand by some unknown reason for a factor of billions upon billions and then just stop expanding for some unknown reason, why not suggest that the stars were created at various phases of stellar progression and their light traveled incredibly fast until some unknown event, and now we’re stuck with “light speed”? Ultimately, inflation makes physics every bit as magical as six-day creation, while multiverses solve Occam’s Razor by dividing by zero.

[colorado tanker]

inflation ping

[Organic Panic]

They just need to stop debating and declare the science is settled. That’s the new scientific method.

[LibWhacker]

Hmm, Alcubierre drives were in trouble enough as it was. I’m no physicist, but I have to wonder if this won’t be the final nail in the coffin for Alcubierre’s warp drive, inasmuch as Alcubierre’s work was based on a metric he derived from inflation theory, or so goes my admittedly quite limited understanding of these things.