[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Early Universe's Rapid Expansion Confirmed

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Scientists have gathered new evidence that supports the inflationary theory of expansion thanks new data from NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP). The spacecraft has been making continuous observations of the cosmic background radiation; the afterglow of the Big Bang. These latest observations produced a map of the sky so detailed that scientists were able to trace how microscopic fluctuations in the primordial Universe were magnified in a trillionth of a second of rapid expansion to create the stars and galaxies we see today.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

ping!

[NormsRevenge]

"The longer WMAP observes, the more it reveals about how our universe grew from microscopic quantum fluctuations to the vast expanses of stars and galaxies we see today."


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our universe grew from microscopic quantum fluctuations ..

what the heck are microscopic quantum fluctuations ? hmmmm

[quantim]

Again, no mention of Alan Guth, amazing.

[RightWhale]

Inflation was an amazing concept when it was first proposed 25 years ago

by Alan Guth, whose name by coincidence--GUTh--seems to say Grand Unified Theory.