Bedford's Alan MacRobert to Discuss Cosmic Inflation on Greater Boston Tonight

Bedford's Alan MacRobert appeared with Emily Rooney on WBGH's news magazine, Greater Boston — *Bedford’s Alan MacRobert appeared with Emily Rooney on WBGH’s news magazine, Greater Boston*

Compiled by The Bedford Citizen

Sky and Telescope editor Alan MacRobert of Bedford will appear on Greater Boston this evening to discuss the discovery of the primordial B-modes by a team at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who discovered the first direct evidence of cosmic inflation — or the Big Bang.

Greater Boston is broadcast on WGBH-TV, Channel 2, at 7 pm.

To explain the scientific details, The Citizen offers two recent articles about the announcement:

To read the full details in Sky and Telescope: https://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/First-Direct-Evidence-of-Big-Bang-Inflation-250681381.html
To read the Boston Globe’s story about the Harvard Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Team: https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/science/2014/03/17/harvard-led-team-detects-gravitational-waves-evidence-cosmic-inflation/nvWTo5iSyhbMauKD1GegsK/story.html

The following video of Andrei Dmitriyevich Linde—one of the main authors of the inflationary universe theory—hearing about the confirmation for the first time was recorded by Stanford University’s assistant professor Chao-Lin Kuo who surprised him with the news.