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What do the BICEP2 results mean for string gas cosmology and the ekpyrotic universe?
The imprint of gravitational waves created shortly after the big bang may offer direct evidence for inflation theory, according to a discovery by the BICEP2 experiment at the South Pole and released ...
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What do the line segments on the BICEP2 B-mode polarization map mean?
The first image of BICEP2 visuals shows the "BICEP2 B-mode Signal", described as follows:
Gravitational waves from inflation generate a faint but distinctive
twisting pattern in the polarization ...
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