{"id":131110,"date":"2021-11-23T10:45:20","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T18:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/blowing-up-the-universe-bicep3-tightens-the-bounds-on-cosmic-inflation"},"modified":"2021-11-23T10:45:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T18:45:20","slug":"blowing-up-the-universe-bicep3-tightens-the-bounds-on-cosmic-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/blowing-up-the-universe-bicep3-tightens-the-bounds-on-cosmic-inflation","title":{"rendered":"Blowing Up the Universe: BICEP3 Tightens the Bounds on Cosmic Inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/blowing-up-the-universe-bicep3-tightens-the-bounds-on-cosmic-inflation.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A new analysis of the South Pole-based telescope\u2019s cosmic microwave background observations has all but ruled out several popular models of inflation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Physicists looking for signs of primordial gravitational waves by sifting through the earliest light in the cosmos \u2013 the cosmic microwave background (CMB) \u2013 have reported their findings: still nothing.<\/p>\n<p>But far from being a dud, the latest results from the BICEP3 experiment at the South Pole have tightened the bounds on models of cosmic inflation, a process that in theory explains several perplexing features of our universe and which should have produced gravitational waves shortly after the universe began.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new analysis of the South Pole-based telescope\u2019s cosmic microwave background observations has all but ruled out several popular models of inflation. Physicists looking for signs of primordial gravitational waves by sifting through the earliest light in the cosmos \u2013 the cosmic microwave background (CMB) \u2013 have reported their findings: still nothing. But far from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131110","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}