Dr. Brian Keating

They accidentally said, I'm looking at the satellite that should have a certain amount of background hiss, noise, whatever that was expected. But I'm getting hundreds of times that amount. And where could that be coming from? They did very excruciating, very high precision measurements.

They accidentally said, I'm looking at the satellite that should have a certain amount of background hiss, noise, whatever that was expected. But I'm getting hundreds of times that amount. And where could that be coming from? They did very excruciating, very high precision measurements.

They accidentally said, I'm looking at the satellite that should have a certain amount of background hiss, noise, whatever that was expected. But I'm getting hundreds of times that amount. And where could that be coming from? They did very excruciating, very high precision measurements.

And they found they couldn't identify a single terrestrial source or a cosmic source of any other sort except for the fact. that if the universe began essentially with a big bang, they didn't call it that back then, that there would be a pervasive heat left over that would be exactly this temperature, three degrees above absolute zero, three degrees Kelvin.

And they found they couldn't identify a single terrestrial source or a cosmic source of any other sort except for the fact. that if the universe began essentially with a big bang, they didn't call it that back then, that there would be a pervasive heat left over that would be exactly this temperature, three degrees above absolute zero, three degrees Kelvin.

And they found they couldn't identify a single terrestrial source or a cosmic source of any other sort except for the fact. that if the universe began essentially with a big bang, they didn't call it that back then, that there would be a pervasive heat left over that would be exactly this temperature, three degrees above absolute zero, three degrees Kelvin.

So I knew if they won a Nobel Prize, certainly I'd win a Nobel Prize for discovering why that effect happened, right? It's like you discover, you know, some amino acid and then you discover, well, it's produced by DNA. Well, certainly, you know, if the amino acid won the Nobel Prize, certainly DNA would win the Nobel Prize, right?

So I knew if they won a Nobel Prize, certainly I'd win a Nobel Prize for discovering why that effect happened, right? It's like you discover, you know, some amino acid and then you discover, well, it's produced by DNA. Well, certainly, you know, if the amino acid won the Nobel Prize, certainly DNA would win the Nobel Prize, right?

So I knew if they won a Nobel Prize, certainly I'd win a Nobel Prize for discovering why that effect happened, right? It's like you discover, you know, some amino acid and then you discover, well, it's produced by DNA. Well, certainly, you know, if the amino acid won the Nobel Prize, certainly DNA would win the Nobel Prize, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We didn't publish it. We submitted it to the archive. We had a press conference at Harvard Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences. And it was televised. And in the audience were Nobel laureates and reporters. But the discovery that, you know, it was clear that we would have won it. However, at that time, I had been removed from the leadership of the experiment that I created.

We didn't publish it. We submitted it to the archive. We had a press conference at Harvard Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences. And it was televised. And in the audience were Nobel laureates and reporters. But the discovery that, you know, it was clear that we would have won it. However, at that time, I had been removed from the leadership of the experiment that I created.

We didn't publish it. We submitted it to the archive. We had a press conference at Harvard Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences. And it was televised. And in the audience were Nobel laureates and reporters. But the discovery that, you know, it was clear that we would have won it. However, at that time, I had been removed from the leadership of the experiment that I created.

So I created the predecessor experiment. It's like iPhones. You build one, then you upgrade it. You build a better camera. So the first one I invented when I was a postdoc at Stanford, it was called Bicep. And it stood for Background Imager of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization.

So I created the predecessor experiment. It's like iPhones. You build one, then you upgrade it. You build a better camera. So the first one I invented when I was a postdoc at Stanford, it was called Bicep. And it stood for Background Imager of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization.

So I created the predecessor experiment. It's like iPhones. You build one, then you upgrade it. You build a better camera. So the first one I invented when I was a postdoc at Stanford, it was called Bicep. And it stood for Background Imager of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization.

And it's also kind of a play on words because the pattern of microwave polarization, which we can talk about, was a twisting, curling pattern. So I made the pun, like curl like you do bicep, the muscle behind curls. Anyway, it's not that funny. And they ended up trying to change the acronym, which pissed me off. But anyway, the tragic thing is that we built this experiment.

And it's also kind of a play on words because the pattern of microwave polarization, which we can talk about, was a twisting, curling pattern. So I made the pun, like curl like you do bicep, the muscle behind curls. Anyway, it's not that funny. And they ended up trying to change the acronym, which pissed me off. But anyway, the tragic thing is that we built this experiment.