"Harvard-led team detects gravitational waves, evidence of cosmic inflation" Vol. Big Bang

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A new look at the Big Bang, moments later

CAMBRIDGE — In a landmark discovery about the first moments of the universe, a team led by a Harvard astronomer announced Monday it had found strong evidence of what happened just after the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago:

In the slightest fraction of a second, the universe — a speck one-billionth the size of a proton — doubled in size 100 times over, a dramatic expansion called inflation. Scientists call it the “bang” of the Big Bang.


The discovery was accomplished by capturing the first images of gravitational waves, ripples in space-time that were predicted a century ago by Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity.

Scientists hailed the finding as a transformative event that will provide deep and complicated questions for physicists to explore as well as transfix the imagination of the broader public, because it gives insight into a foundational question in physics: How did the universe begin?
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Amazing.

One of my good friends who's a physicist totally marked out this morning when the news hit. My joke response to him was that "We finally found this but can't find a plane with 250 people on it?" :lol:
 
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HybridSoldier23 said:
Amazing.

One of my good friends who's a physicist totally marked out this morning when the news hit. My joke response to him was that "We finally found this but can't find a plane with 250 people on it?"
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word lol
 
“This is one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time,” said Max Tegmark, a physicist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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swag swag swag
 
What do you guys think happens if somehow, someday they prove that the big bang happend. What happens to life ? Socially, and with religion and all that good stuff.
 
Will0827 said:
What do you guys think happens if somehow, someday they prove that the big bang happend. What happens to life ? Socially, and with religion and all that good stuff.
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at this point most of the literal interpretations are basically :\ anyway. Belief in a higher power will continue. Also, there's still the "pre-big bang" universe if you catch my drift.
 
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life is a crazy story, stories like this never fail for my mind to float off
 
Will0827 said:
What do you guys think happens if somehow, someday they prove that the big bang happend. What happens to life ? Socially, and with religion and all that good stuff.
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They already did prove it. How does the big bang disprove the notion of God?
 
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Enlighten me when they replicate the speed of light i.e. from earth to the moon in 1 second.
 
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