UB physicist discusses cosmic inflation in New Scientist article

An article in New Scientist about the debate among cosmologists over the forces that could push the universe apart – inflation or dark energy – quotes Will Kinney, associate professor of physics. “Everyone wants BICEP2 to be right,” he said, “because if it is, we are going to be doing incredibly precise physics on the inflationary model within the foreseeable future. And it’s going to be really cool.”

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