How My Nobel Dream Bit the Dust

Physicist Brian Keating details the process by which breakthrough scientific results can be reached and announced, then peer reviewed and debunked. Though his team believed they'd proven cosmological inflation, a Nobel Prize-worthy discovery if confirmed, the larger cosmology community, including Professor Matias Zaldarriaga, Member James Colin Hill, and former Members Raphael Flauger and David Spergel, had doubts.