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The Higgs boson is delightfully stirring the mud puddle in the astrophysics community even after found! Instead of clearing everything up, now more questions have to be asked.
British cosmologists are puzzled: they predict that the universe should not have lasted for more than a second. This startling conclusion is the result of combining the latest observations of the sky with the recent discovery of the Higgs boson. Robert Hogan of King's College London (KCL) presents the new research on June 24 at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting in Portsmouth.
The controversy seems to be about one of the predictions of BICEP2 allegedly being observed, and if so, Robert Hogan seems to think that if they did see this effect, then the universe would not exist today, it would have went straight to 'Big Crunch' right after the 'Big Bang'.
Pop the corn, this may be a good one!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 25 2014, @12:59PM
But what me might hope for is that at least we can replace our atlas of maps which contradict each other by a single map that covers all the known territory without contradiction.
(Score: 2) by Dunbal on Wednesday June 25 2014, @04:02PM
Hope if you want, but I think you'll always be looking for a bigger map.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday June 25 2014, @09:08PM
Maybe you should read again the post you replied to. Hint: It didn't say anything about the size or the completeness of the map. And also note the difference between "all territory" and "all the known territory".
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.