CMB-Bharat project

Why is it in news?
  • Recently, Project CMB (Cosmic Microwave Background)-Bharat was concluded in Bengluru.
  • It is a project to listen to the faintest murmurs of the universe.
More in news
  • It consists of a school to train early career researchers and a workshop for active researchers in the field of cosmology.
  • The scientific space project CMB-Bharat has been presented as a proposal to ISRO.
  • Scientific promise of project:
  1. Project would reveal the first clear signature of quantum gravity and ultra-high-energy-physics in the very early universe.
  2. This referred to quantum gravitational waves, which are different from what LIGO detectors had observed that were classical in nature.
  3. The “high” goals lay in neutrino physics where more discovery about the neutrino species, their total mass and mass hierarchy is planned.
  4. Also mapping all dark matter and most baryons in the observable universe is also under consideration.
Gathering of cosmologists: The workshop was a unique gathering of cosmologists from across the world, and participants could attend invited talks by eminent cosmologists and experimental physicists from across the world, such as Lyman Page, Rashid Sunyaev, J. Richard 'Dick' Bond, etc.
Source
The Hindu
Posted by Jawwad Kazi on 28th Jan 2019
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