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name: Brian  Keating
about: Brian Keating is a professor of physics at the Center for Astrophysics &amp; Space Sciences in the Department of Physics at the University of California, San Diego. He is a public speaker, inventor, and an expert in the study of the universe’s oldest light, the cosmic microwave background (CMB), using it to learn about the origin and evolution of the universe. Keating is a pioneer in the search for the earliest physical evidence of the inflationary epoch] the theorized period of expansion of space in the early universe directly after the Big Bang. Physicists predict that this evidence will reveal itself as a particular pattern in the way CMB light is polarized. This pattern is referred to as a B-mode pattern and the BICEP2 experiment claimed to Brian Keating is a professor of physics at the Center for Astrophysics &amp; Space Sciences in the Department of Physics at the University of California, San Diego. He is a public speaker, inventor, and an expert in the study of the universe’s oldest light, the cosmic microwave background (CMB), using it to learn about the origin and evolution of the universe. Keating is a pioneer in the search for the earliest physical evidence of the inflationary epoch] the theorized period of expansion of space in the early universe directly after the Big Bang. Physicists predict that this evidence will reveal itself as a particular pattern in the way CMB light is polarized. This pattern is referred to as a B-mode pattern and the BICEP2 experiment claimed to observe it in 2014. This episode is the subject of Keating's first book, Losing the Nobel Prize. ...more