THE VIDEO SHELF · cosmic inflation discovery
Stanford Professor Andrei Linde celebrates physics breakthrough
A short Stanford video in which Chao-Lin Kuo surprises Professor Andrei Linde with BICEP2 evidence supporting cosmic inflation, the first apparent images of primordial gravitational waves.
Why HN readers recommended it
Shared for its moving moment of scientific discovery, and later cited as a cautionary example after the BICEP2 result was retracted.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Stanford
- Topic
- cosmic inflation discovery
- Format
- news
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2014–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Sharing my cryiest ever video clip, when Stanford Professor Andrei Linde celebrates physics breakthrough: [1]. I've seen it thirty times and I cry (oh, the tears) every time. I also cried at the end of Real Steal. [1] [VIDEO]
marlag on Hacker News · 2016-05
In CryingThey made a nice video of the researcher surprising Prof Linde with the news: [VIDEO] The reaction of the couple is great!
DangerousPie on Hacker News · 2014-03
In Gravity waves from Big Bang detected
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