NEW
YORK-
Scientists
who made headlines last March by announcing that they'd found
long-sought evidence about the early universe are now abandoning that
claim.
"It's
disappointing," he said in a telephone interview Friday after the
European Space Agency publicized the results. "It's like finding out
there's no Santa Claus. But it's important to know the truth."
That signal is what the researchers claimed they had found in
observations of the sky taken from the South Pole, in a project called
BICEP2.
But now, in a new paper submitted for publication, "we are effectively
retracting the claim," said Brian Keating of the University of
California, San Diego, a member of the BICEP2 team.
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As I've said before, It used to be a lot harder to convince people you could change the weather.
ReplyDeleteTim
When you need a smile just remember that Michael Mann has Mark Steyn on his six and it's self inflicted.
ReplyDeleteSeems like science worked here. They thought they had discovered something, it was publicized too soon, they retried the experiment, oops, we were wrong, then they went public with their retraction. Pretty much the way it's supposed to happen.
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