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| Subject: Scientists find echoes of the Big Bang Mon Mar 17, 2014 10:26 pm | |
| In the beginning, the universe got very big very fast, transforming itself in a fraction of an instant from something almost infinitesimally small to something imponderably vast, a cosmos so huge that no one will ever be able to see it all.
This is the premise of an idea called cosmic inflation – a powerful twist on the Big Bang theory – and Monday it received a major boost from an experiment at the South Pole called BICEP2. A team of astronomers led by John Kovac of the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics announced that it had detected ripples from gravitational waves created in a violent inflationary event at the dawn of time.
"We're very excited to present our results because they seem to match the prediction of the theory so closely," Kovac said. "But it's the case that science can never actually prove a theory to be true. There could always be an alternative explanation that we haven't been clever enough to think of."
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/scientists-find-echoes-of-the-big-bang-20140318-34ypb.html#ixzz2wHFq3v8U |
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