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Brian Keating on How Cosmic Dust Derailed a Nobel Prize
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June 4, 2025
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12:39Now PlayingIn a conversation between Neil deGrasse Tyson and Dr. Brian Keating, they revisit the 2014 announcement from the BICEP2 experiment that claimed to detect primordial gravitational waves, or “ripples in spacetime” from the early universe—a discovery that made global headlines, including the front page of the New York Times. Keating, a key figure behind the experiment, explains its clever naming, the extreme conditions of the South Pole setup, and the immense technical challenge of measuring faint signals.
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