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Stanford Professor Andrei Linde celebrates physics breakthrough

Stanford · 3.2M views · 2014-03-17 · 2:39

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Overview

A short Stanford video in which Chao-Lin Kuo surprises Professor Andrei Linde with BICEP2 evidence supporting cosmic inflation, the first apparent images of primordial gravitational waves.

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Shared for its moving moment of scientific discovery, and later cited as a cautionary example after the BICEP2 result was retracted.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2014–2022

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Cosmology & astrophysics
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marlag · 2016-05 · Strong recommendation

Sharing my cryiest ever video clip, when Stanford Professor Andrei Linde celebrates physics breakthrough: [1]. I've seen it thirty times and I cry (oh, the tears) every time. I also cried at the end of Real Steal. [1] [VIDEO]

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DangerousPie · 2014-03 · Recommendation

They made a nice video of the researcher surprising Prof Linde with the news: [VIDEO] The reaction of the couple is great!

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oldgradstudent · 2022-12 · Criticism

NASA also publishes. Yet we still got this: [LINK] BICEP2 was a respected scientific collaboration, and it ended up like this: [LINK] The even took a touching video of one of the participants notifying the theorist that predicted the result about their achievement. [VIDEO] Just a two off the top of my mind.

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