At first I was skeptical about the article (this being NewScientist), but it seems that BICEP's findings might indeed be in doubt. This would be exciting, since it moves our search for gravity waves back to square zero.<p>People have tried for quite some time to measure them and so far no experiment has succeeded. On the other hand that's not surprising for such an elusive phenomenon, so the jury is still out.
Well, I feel for the scientists involved.<p>Before that revelation my expectations where that gravitational waves would be detected after the next supernova in the milky-way galaxy. That would require a lot less ingenuity.<p>I would take discovery by any method during my lifetime, in fact the less expected the better.
See also the National Geographic coverage: <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/05/140514-bicep2-physics-rumors-science-big-bang/" rel="nofollow">http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/05/140514-bicep...</a>