Yay, my favourite astro news correspondent is back, i thought my Brian AstroNews Aggregator ticker was broken π so much news happend in the last few weeks.
Oh there will be a lecture on cosmic infaltion and early universe tomorrow at astrofest. Β I wonder if this news will come up.
There was a nice summary about the new results on Sean Carroll's blog:
http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2015/02/06/the-state-of-the-early-universe/#more-12347
So they have a better bound on where polarization caused by inflation may reside.
AlsoΒ trying to put the best frontier of knowledge advancing spin on BICEP2 and forgetting about them scraping data from Planck talks and this champagne moment:
Our next talk is by Hiranya Peiris from the Planck Collaboration who will horfully tell us about all of these matters.