{"id":90,"date":"2014-03-26T00:47:53","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T04:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/ts\/?p=90"},"modified":"2014-03-26T00:47:53","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T04:47:53","slug":"cosmic-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/ts\/2014\/03\/26\/cosmic-inflation\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic Inflation."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A major proof of the cosmic inflation, a major component of the Big Bang Theory (the actual theory, not the sitcom), was discovered last week. I\u2019m not a cosmologist or physicist. I\u2019m not even that good at math. Luckily for me, there\u2019s a webcomic that puts this discovery in laypeople\u2019s terms. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phdcomics.com\/comics\/archive.php?comicid=1691\" target=\"_blank\">It\u2019s here at PHD Comics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phdcomics.com\" target=\"_blank\">PHD Comics<\/a>\u00a0is usually a funny strip about the travails of life as a grad student, but every so often the cartoonist, Jorge Cham, does an explainer like this. I recommend both the funny strips and the explainers; they\u2019re very entertaining.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the discovery explained another way, as a YouTube video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Polarizing Discovery About the Big Bang!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4IlBNJbCzfk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Stanford Professor Andrei Linde came up with this idea, and this next video shows Assistant Professor Chao-Lin Kuo going to Linde\u2019s home to tell him his team has proved Linde\u2019s theory to a certainty of \u201cfive sigma\u201d (which I take to mean five standard deviations, i.e. very very certain). His life\u2019s work has been vindicated. The door was answered by Linde\u2019s wife, Renata Kallosh, also a physicist:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stanford Professor Andrei Linde celebrates physics breakthrough\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZlfIVEy_YOA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>All that\u2019s missing from that charming scene is an oversized novelty check being handed to the couple.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, sometimes the evidence, no matter how good, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.answersingenesis.org\/articles\/2014\/03\/17\/has-cosmic-inflation-been-proved\" target=\"_blank\">will never be good enough for some people<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major proof of the cosmic inflation, a major component of the Big Bang Theory (the actual theory, not the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[34,37,33,36,35],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","tag-andrei-linde","tag-big-bang-theory","tag-cosmic-background-radiation","tag-cosmic-inflation","tag-phd-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/ts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/ts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/ts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/ts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/ts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/ts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/ts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/ts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/ts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}