Gives me great confidence in the conclusions! Dave
-----Original Message----- From: Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> To: vortex-l <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Tue, May 13, 2014 11:56 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Blockbuster Big Bang Result May Fizzle, Rumor Suggests On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 8:57 AM, H Veeder <hveeder...@gmail.com> wrote: http://news.sciencemag.org/physics/2014/05/blockbuster-big-bang-result-may-fizzle-rumor-suggests >From the article: Part of the problem is that the Planck team has not made the raw foreground data available, he says. Instead, BICEP researchers had to do the best they could with a PDF file of that map that the Planck team presented at a conference. Moreover, Pryke says, conversations with members of the Planck team leave it uncertain exactly what is in the key plot. "It is unclear what that plot shows," he says. Just to clarify -- it seems a critical piece of the reasoning that led to the conclusion that the traces of gravity waves from the very first instant of the universe's assumed inflation was based on the subtracting of an image in a PDF file whose underlying data were not made available to the reporting team and whose purport is not fully known by some of the members of the team that produced the original graphic. Or something like that. Eric
