Gravitational Waves in the Cosmic Microwave Background?

The cosmologists are a bit wee-weed up over an announcement from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics coming up today at Noon, apparently of the detection of gravitational waves in the cosmic microwave background by the BICEP2 telescope. It could be sort of a big deal, depending on just what they announce. mcdr.es/PH0DhA

A webcast, "for scientists," is scheduled for 10:45 AM with a press conference to follow at 12:00 PM athttp://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/news_conferences.html

Papers and data to be available at http://bicepkeck.org/ at 10:45 AM