Despite earlier reports of a possible detection, a joint analysis of data from ESA’s Planck satellite and the ground-based BICEP2 and Keck Array experiments has found no conclusive evidence of primordial gravitational waves.
The Universe began about 13.8 billion years ago and evolved from an extremely hot, dense and uniform state to the rich and complex cosmos of galaxies, stars and planets we see today.
An extraordinary source of information about the Universe’s history is the Cosmic Microwave Background, or CMB, the legacy of light emitted only 380 000 years after the Big Bang.
The ESA dishes the dirt here.
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Planck: Gravitational Waves Remain Elusive
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 01 2015, @12:23PM
The summary is rather ... disjointed, eh.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Justin Case on Sunday February 01 2015, @12:33PM
I thought this one was solved long ago: there is no gravity, Earth sucks!
(Score: 3, Funny) by wonkey_monkey on Monday February 02 2015, @08:40AM
Planck: Gravitational Waves Remain Elusive
Zombie Planck then demanded either a plate of brains or to be returned to his grave.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Monday February 02 2015, @06:36PM
I don't know. The whole "polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation being evidence of Gravity Lensing which is then evidence of Gravitational Waves that could only have resulted from Cosmic Inflation" seems to be a bit of a stretch. Kind of like a "Big Bang Theory" where the "whole universe was in a hot dense state", more of a sit-com than actual science. Especially since the polarization can equally be produced by dirt, or in the more technical language, space dirt.
But at least they have found something, they have found a lack of conclusive evidence. That's a relief, because otherwise all that grant money would have gone to waste.