Ground Breaking CMB Polarization Results from QUaD, Clem Pryke

The QUaD experiment has released new results on Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization with far higher sensitivity than previous measurements. These results are perfectly in accord with the prevailing Standard Cosmological Model, lending further support to this highly successful, but equally mysterious, theory of the Universe.

The CMB is light that comes to us from the "fireball" phase of the infant Universe, only 400,000 years after the Big Bang itself. Due to the subsequent expansion of the Universe, this light is detected today as a faint glow of microwaves over the entire sky, which can be measured with specialized radio telescopes. [more]