What´s the big deal behind the discovery made by the BICEP2 team last week?

March 24, 2014 by admin

Jon Kaufman and Jorge Cham explain cosmic inflation to us in a comic strip. Read it here.

Jon Kaufman (soon to be Dr. Jon Kaufman) is a member of the BICEP2 team that made the discovery described above. As one of the Ph.D. students in the project, Jon spent many months in the South Pole (there is an actual pole), recharging the liquid Helium on the telescope, for which he received a medal. It was his idea to draw this comic