Cosmic Tangle: Loop Quantum Cosmology and CMB Anomalies

Abstract

Loop quantum cosmology is a conflicted field in which exuberant claims of observability coexist with serious objections against the conceptual and physical viability of its current formulations. This contribution presents a non-technical case study of the recent claim that loop quantum cosmology might alleviate anomalies in the observations of the cosmic microwave background.

Keywords

• loop quantum cosmology
• observations