WordPress does quite well in recording blog stats. From this I have learnt:
(1) That none of you read this blog on Christmas Day. Good!
(2) People are already sniffing around the internet looking for rumours of Planck results (or should I say rumors, as the search used USian spelling). Bad – anything you hear will likely be nonsense since none of us are talking.
December 28, 2012 at 8:53 pm
I heard Elvis has been spotted in the Planck HFI pol maps. Ssh, don’t tell anyone though – Lord Lucan is in the B-modes.
December 28, 2012 at 8:59 pm
As a member of the Planck collaboration I am not permitted to either confirm or deny this rumour.
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December 28, 2012 at 9:37 pm
Apparently 535 people read my blog on Christmas Day, which proves only one thing – more losers follow me!
December 28, 2012 at 10:26 pm
Another rumour on which I could not possibly comment, can be found here:
http://telescoper.wordpress.com/2012/12/28/the-planck-rumour-mill/
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January 1, 2013 at 10:29 pm
Can you at least tell us when and where the CMB results will be revealed?
January 2, 2013 at 9:03 am
The big Planck results conference will be held at ESTEC in Noordwijk in the Netherlands starting 2nd April. It’s going to be Abigail meeting!
January 2, 2013 at 7:51 pm
However, a press conference at ESA HQ in Paris about the CMB results – coinciding, I reckon, with the submission of the respective papers – has been announced today for mid-March. Also the conference invitation says that it is “following Planck’s first major release of data products and scientific papers in early 2013.”
January 2, 2013 at 9:00 pm
Thanks for the update!
I didn’t know about this. Whether this says something about how much attention I’ve been paying over the Christmas/New Year break, or how well information gets distributed within the Planck collaboration, I’ll leave as an exercise for the reader.