The Legacy of BICEP2, Four Years Later: EDGES, LIGO, & beyond.

Andrew Grant wrote a very nice in Physics Today, giving a great summary of the lasting, long range impact of the BICEP2 experience.

Grant’s piece appears exactly four years after the momentous announcement made at Harvard’s Center for Astrophysics. That announcement made headlines around the world, shaking up the normally-staid astrophysics community.

It’s intriguing to see the impact that our vetting, publicity, and publication process had on two other astronomical astonishing announcements, one by the LIGO experiment and the other, more recently, from the EDGES experiment.

Perhaps one of the most long-lasting effects of BICEP2 will be as a cautionary tale, one that has truly penetrated the subconscious of Experimental astrophysicists everywhere.

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/action/showDoPubSecure?doi=10.1063%2FPT.6.3.20180316a&format=full