There goes that theory: Big Bang find turns into big bust

The most exciting astronomical discovery of 2014 has vanished. A March 2014 discovery in which scientists claimed to have found patterns in light left over from the Big Bang that indicated that space had rapidly inflated at the beginning of the universe was based not on a breakthrough, but on some interstellar dust. The discovery of light patterns, a result of the BICEP2 experiment, was heralded at the time as the “smoking gun”, and supposedly confirmed the existence of gravitational waves, theoretical ripples in space-time. However, the dust accounted for up to half of the patterns.

The gravitational wave signal could still be there, and the search is definitely on.

Brendan Crill, member of both the Planck and BICEP2 teams

Scientists are still searching for evidence of cosmic inflation, most notably gravitational waves, which are disturbances in the fabric of space time.

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