Failure in real science is good – and different from phony controversies
Tuesday, February 10, 2015 - 10:00
in Astronomy & Space
Last March, the BICEP2 collaboration announced that they had used a microwave telescope at the South Pole to detect primordial gravitational waves. These tiny ripples in spacetime would be the first proof of the theory known as "inflation," an astonishingly rapid expansion of the universe in the instants after the Big Bang.