{"id":2966,"date":"2014-11-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-optics-wp.pantheonsite.io\/loft\/polarbear-detects-curls-in-the-universes-oldest-light\/"},"modified":"2014-11-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T00:00:00","slug":"polarbear-detects-curls-in-the-universes-oldest-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/polarbear-detects-curls-in-the-universes-oldest-light\/","title":{"rendered":"POLARBEAR detects curls in the universe\u2019s oldest light"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" id=\"attachment_1775\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/04\/polarbeardet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt='polarbeardet' class=\"size-medium wp-image-1775\" height=\"138\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/04\/polarbeardet-300x138.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/04\/polarbeardet-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/04\/polarbeardet.jpg 500w\" width=\"300\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Measurements of polarization of the cosmic microwave background. Credit: POLARBEAR<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A recent publication in the\u00a0<em>Astrophysical Journal<\/em> reported that curl was detected in some of the oldest measurable light in the universe. \u00a0This was the result of measurements taken from an observatory in Chile\u2019s Atacama desert. \u00a0See <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2014-10-polarbear-universe-oldest.html\">source<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Measurements of polarization of the cosmic microwave background. Credit: POLARBEAR A recent publication in the\u00a0Astrophysical Journal reported that curl was detected in some of the oldest measurable light in the universe. \u00a0This was the result of measurements taken from an observatory in Chile\u2019s Atacama desert. \u00a0See source\u00a0for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-2966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-loft-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}