
Brian Keating’s Quest for the Origin of the Universe
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The Dust Dut On
The bicep two team thought that it saw a fantastically strong signal of the beam hod polarization, meaning the signature they were looking for of inflation. The whole time, there was a villain lurking in the background of the experiment, dust dut on. Brian and his team knew that there would be interstellar dust, and that it could create an impostor signal. And through a series of painstaking analyses, they were able to make this claim that put a lot of doubt on our result.
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