ScienceDaily -- What happened in the first trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang?
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"The B-mode polarization is the most significant piece of evidence related to inflation that has yet to be observed," said Ki Won Yoon, a NIST postdoctoral scholar who will describe the project at the APS meeting. "A detection of primordial gravitational waves through CMB polarization would go a long way toward putting the inflation theory on firm ground."
The data also could provide scientists with insights into different string theory models of the universe and other "unified" theories of physics.
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How we could see another universe (Article in print form only.)
