How the Biggest Scientific Discovery of the Year Was Kept a Secret

MrBrian · Mar 21, 2014

From http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2014/03/secret-bicep-inflation/:

When researchers announced earlier this week that they might have made what is essentially the scientific breakthrough of the year–echoes from the earliest fraction of a second after the Big Bang known as primordial B-mode polarizations–it seemed to come out of left field. Similarly large announcements, like the discovery of the Higgs boson, generally have followed months of speculation, rumors, and even leaks.
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Mrkvonic · Mar 22, 2014

Well, it wasn't a secret after all.
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MrBrian · Nov 1, 2014

From http://www.nature.com/news/dust-to-dust-1.16137:

More than six months after the initial announcement that scientists had found evidence of gravitational waves — echoes of the Big Bang itself — the claim is hanging by a thread. Subsequent analysis showed that much of the signal could have been contaminated by galactic dust. The predictions of Nobel prizes for the team have faded. The champagne has gone flat.
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