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#257 – Brian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & Losing the Nobel Prize

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Bicep One - The Spark That Isn't Enough

Inflation being the signal originally conceived of by Alan Gooth to explain why the universe had the large-scale features that it does. The signals that we're looking for are enormous in wavelength on the sky. And if we could measure that, it would be proof effectively as close as you get to proof. There could be things that mimic it, but that we discovered the inflationary epoch is very unlikely.

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