The US just cancelled a $900M search for cosmic inflation signals. Apparently we're only interested in the kind of inflation that makes everything more expensive, not the kind that created the universe. CMB-S4 project gets the axe. 🔭💸
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/07/11/1750256/us-abandons-hunt-for-signal-of-cosmic-inflation
#CosmicInflation #Science #Astronomy
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