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Scientists will announce a "major discovery" on Monday, March 17 at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, according to a news release from the institution.
The press conference will be streamed live starting at 11:55 a.m. EDT at this link. Business Insider will also be covering the announcement.
Rumors surrounding the topic of the announcement are starting to fly, but at this point it's still anyone's guess.
The Guardian reports on speculation that the discovery has to do with finding of evidence of primordial gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of spacetime that were produced in the early universe. The imprint they left when the universe was born 13.82 billion years ago would give us an idea what the universe was like when it just came into existence.
According to The Guardian: "The signal is rumored to have been found by a specialized telescope called Bicep (Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization) at the south pole."
Gravitational waves were the last untested prediction of Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity.
"It's been called the Holy Grail of cosmology," Hiranya Peiris, a cosmologist from University College London told The Guardian. "It would be a real major, major, major discovery."
There are still reasons not to get ahead of ourselves.
The press conference will be streamed live starting at 11:55 a.m. EDT at this link. Business Insider will also be covering the announcement.
Rumors surrounding the topic of the announcement are starting to fly, but at this point it's still anyone's guess.
The Guardian reports on speculation that the discovery has to do with finding of evidence of primordial gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of spacetime that were produced in the early universe. The imprint they left when the universe was born 13.82 billion years ago would give us an idea what the universe was like when it just came into existence.
According to The Guardian: "The signal is rumored to have been found by a specialized telescope called Bicep (Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization) at the south pole."
Gravitational waves were the last untested prediction of Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity.
"It's been called the Holy Grail of cosmology," Hiranya Peiris, a cosmologist from University College London told The Guardian. "It would be a real major, major, major discovery."
There are still reasons not to get ahead of ourselves.
