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Constraint on the primordial gravitational waves

from the joint analysis of BICEP2

and Planck HFI 353 GHz dust polarization data

We make a joint analysis of BICEP2 and recently released Planck HFI 353 GHz dust polarization data, and find that there is no evidence for the primordial gravitational waves http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.7025

 

Tensors, BICEP2, prior dependence, and dust

from simple ination models, we

would have to conclude that there could not be a pri-

mordial signal strong enough to be detected by BICEP2,

whose signal would need an alternative explanation such

as polarized dust. http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.6530

 

Planck intermediate results. XXX. The angular power spectrum of  polarized dust emission at intermediate and high Galactic latitudes

We find a systematic ratio between the amplitudes of the Galactic B

- and E

-modes of 0.5. We show that even in the faintest dust-emitting regions there are no "clean" windows where primordial CMB B

-mode polarization could be measured without subtraction of dust emission http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.5738

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"Epic Big Bang Discovery Might Just Be Space Dust"

In March, a team of scientists announced that they had found evidence of primordial gravitational waves, hypothesized ripples in space-time whose existence wouldsuggest that the universe did indeed expand many times faster than the speed of light in the first few instants after the Big Bang, as posited by the "cosmic inflation" theory.

say what???? at near the speed of light a mass becomes infinite. Many times c^2??? the mass would have been..........well???.........let's just leave that theory alone. We may have to throw everything out if we accept anything moving even near the speed of light.

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