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I was watching a program which were comparing various Big Bang theories
against each other. In it, they said one way to falsify Inflation vs. Cyclic Universe theories is that a Cyclic Universe will *not* produce gravity waves. Does anybody know why this would be the case? One would think that whatever mechanism lead to the BB, would always cause a lot of gravity ripples. I found some info on it, but it doesn't really explain what leads to this conclusion: The one possible test that they point to that could distinguish the inflation and cyclic scenarios is the expected more sensitive measurement in coming years of a possible B-mode polarization signal due to gravity waves in the CMB. They claim that inflation predicts a significant amount of B-mode polarization, whereas the cyclic model doesn’t. Endless Universe | Not Even Wrong http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=563 Yousuf Khan |
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