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Originally Posted by Damien
It needs to be confirmed first. However like the Higgs Boson this squares a theory. For the inflation theory to be correct the scientists said that these 'gravitation waves' would exist alongside some other things. There was a lot of supporting evidence for the inflation theory but they needed to find that these waves exist, the smoking gun of inflation theory. Presuming there hasn't been a awful mistake they've found it.
Also they don't simply 'think' they have it right. They have evidence to support their hypothesis. It's also hard to doubt them when they said something would be there and then find it is. Their hypothesis is holding up.
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Better explanation here:
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2...-physics-bicep |
what if there is another explanation for the 'gravitation waves' that they have not found yet?
They thought they knew the shape of the milky way yes the very system we are in tiny in comparison to the universe until they found out they were actually incorrect and only found out something this close because the voyager probes shown them
I think I will stick to my skepticism seeing as they can get something wrong this near yet they say they know something millions of times further away
Edit not the milky way our solar system