It has been announced that NANOGrav and the National Science Foundation will be performing a live briefing at (our time) 3AM on Friday the 30th of June.
Link is available here.
Join Us for our Live Briefing! | NANOGrav
Details of what will be released has not been confirmed, however it has the potential to be a very important announcement.
The discovery and the mapping of Cosmic Microwave Background gave us a very young view of what the universe looked like, ‘just’ after the big bang. Just after in cosmic terms means ~400 thousand years after the big bang.
The discovery recently that not only is there a Cosmic Microwave Background there was also a Gravitational Wave Background that could help us understand the early universe too, but rather than 400 thousand years it would be 10 -32 seconds after the big bang. For those not familiar with that format think of it as 1/10 32 or 1/100000000000000000000000000000000 seconds or to put it another way, the time that light travels ~0.000001 of the diameter of a proton. So even in our own understandings of time just after the big bang is accurate.
Some of my numbers may not be accurate, i.e. maybe I have an extra or not enough 0’s
Also, an hour later another briefing will occur about neutrinos, no evidence suggests a reason for the correlation of both of these briefings, interestingly in the science community there has been suggestions of a possible Cosmic Neutrino Background, some suggest that this dates back to ~1 second after the big bang. But the problem has always been detecting neutrinos as they rarely interact with matter.
It is entirely possible that our understanding of the universe may have changed before we all wake up on Friday morning.
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