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[TheAnt]

Ripples in the CMB finally show the effect of the cosmic inflation, a holy grail of cosmology and one achievement for the scientists involved.
In a double score it also give further support for the idea of inflation and gravity waves in the first moment after the big bang.

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[dvandorn]

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One of the things that really fascinates me about cosmology is how we have a somewhat self-consistent mathematical model for the Big Bang which postulates "the fabric of spacetime" inflating at speeds far faster than C, and how it can be flat or curved, locally bent, even completely ingested into gravitational point sources. And yet we have no description or model, really, of exactly what the "fabric of spacetime" actually is, the mechanisms by which it can inflate, be distorted by mass, etc. We have macro- and micro-models of "reality" that don't mesh, either conceptually or mathematically, and the abyss that lies between must be where these mechanisms are hiding from our view.

Physics, as far as it has progressed in the past century or so, is now to the point where it can ask basic, cogent questions. But it's not yet to the point where they can be answered.

An exciting time to be alive, eh?

-the other Doug

[djellison]

How to say this correctly, here...

If you have to ask that question - why are you posting it?