{"id":11573,"date":"2014-06-19T10:27:51","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T17:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11573"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:07:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:07:06","slug":"astronomy-gravitational-waves-turn-to-dust-after-claims-of-flawed-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/astronomy-gravitational-waves-turn-to-dust-after-claims-of-flawed-analysis","title":{"rendered":"Astronomy Gravitational waves turn to dust after claims of flawed analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"contributor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/iansample\" rel=\"author\">Ian Sample<\/a> \u2014 The Guardian<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>It was hailed as one of the most important scientific discoveries of the century, the birth of a new era in <a title=\"More from the Guardian on Physics\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/physics\">physics<\/a> and a shoo-in for a Nobel prize.<\/p>\n<p>The claim from Harvard University that it had <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2014\/mar\/17\/primordial-gravitational-wave-discovery-physics-bicep\">discovered gravitational waves<\/a> \u2013 and thereby evidence for the theory of cosmic inflation and the existence of a multiverse \u2013 caused a worldwide sensation in March. But the celebrations are now looking decidedly premature.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2014\/jun\/04\/gravitational-wave-discovery-dust-big-bang-inflation\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Sample \u2014 The Guardian It was hailed as one of the most important scientific discoveries of the century, the birth of a new era in physics and a shoo-in for a Nobel prize. The claim from Harvard University that it had discovered gravitational waves \u2013 and thereby evidence for the theory of cosmic inflation [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1545],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64964,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11573\/revisions\/64964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}