In March 2014, physicists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced finding evidence that pointed to the existence of 'gravitational waves', which supports the 'cosmic inflation' theory which postulates events in the immediate aftermath of the Big Bang.
The Economist newspaper headlined its article about this announcement: "_____ flexes its muscles". What was the blank, and why?
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"BICEP" - BICEP2 was the name of the telescope (at the South Pole); BICEP stands for "Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization".
Here's the article.
This day last year: Q.927