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Why Do Physicists FIGHT Philosophers?

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

CHAPTER

Unveiling the Mysteries of Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

Exploring the early speculations on the cosmic microwave background radiation in the 1980s, discussing challenges in measuring its properties, and the implications for verifying inflation. The chapter also traces the speaker's journey from Brown to telescope work, culminating in the discovery of gravitational waves with the Bicep 2 instrument in 2014.

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