The Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics held a press conference today to announce a major discovery relating to gravitational waves. What was their announcement, and what are the implications?
Would this discovery be confirmation of gravitational waves as predicted by general relativity (even though Sean Carroll links to the Nobel website implying that G-waves was detected decades ago, while my book on GR (B. Schutz) says they're still looking...I'm confused)
Also, regarding inflation theory, would this discovery confirm inflation or refute it? Or something else, a la string theory?
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