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BICEP2 | Gertrude & Grace

BICEP2 (Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization) measures the polarization of the cosmic microwave background. Its mission is to find out if the theory of our universe’s rapid inflation is true (Cosmological Inflation). Édouard Lemaitre and Edwin Hubble started the ball rolling in the 1920’s based on predictions from Einstein’s theory of relativity.  During the…