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This
undated handout photo courtesy of Steffen Richter shows the sun as
it sets
behind BICEP2 (in the foreground) and the South Pole Telescope
(in the
background) (VagabondPix.co/AFP, Steffen Richter)
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Washington
— Waves of gravity that rippled through space right after the Big Bang have
been detected for the first time, in a landmark discovery that adds to our
understanding of how the universe was born, US scientists said Monday.
The waves
were produced in a rapid growth spurt 14 billion years ago, and were predicted
in Albert Einstein's nearly century-old theory of general relativity but were
never found until now.
The first
direct evidence of cosmic inflation -- a theory that the universe expanded by
100 trillion trillion times in barely the blink of an eye -- was announced by
experts at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
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This
undated handout photo courtesy of
Steffen Richter shows the Dark Sector Lab
(DSL), located 3/4 of a mile from the
Geographic South Pole, which houses the
BICEP2 telescope (left) and the South
Pole Telescope (right)
(VagabondPix.co/
AFP, Steffen Richter)
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The
detection was made with the help of a telescope called BICEP2, stationed at the
South Pole, that measures the oldest light in the universe.
If
confirmed by other experts, some said the work could be a contender for the Nobel
Prize.
The waves
that move through space and time have been described as the "first tremors
of the Big Bang."
Their
detection confirms an integral connection between Einstein's theory of general
relativity and the stranger conceptual realm of quantum mechanics.
NASA said
the findings "not only help confirm that the universe inflated
dramatically, but are providing theorists with the first clues about the exotic
forces that drove space and time apart."
John Kovac,
leader of the BICEP2 collaboration at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics, said years of observations using the telescope at the South Pole
preceded Monday's announcement.
"Detecting
this signal is one of the most important goals in cosmology today. A lot of
work by a lot of people has led up to this point."
'Mind-boggling' find
The
telescope targeted a specific area of sky known as the "Southern
Hole" outside the galaxy where there is little dust or extra galactic
material to interfere with what humans could see with the potent sky-peering
tool.
By
observing the cosmic microwave background, or a faint glow left over from the
Big Bang, small fluctuations gave scientists new clues about the conditions in
the early universe.
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A projector
screens a picture in the planetarium Hamburg, northern
Germany, on August 26,
2013 (DPA/AFP/File, Malte Christians)
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The
gravitational waves rippled through the universe 380,000 years after the Big
Bang, and these images were captured by the telescope.
"It's
mind-boggling to go looking for something like this and actually find it,"
Clem Pryke, associate professor at the University of Minnesota, told reporters
at an event in Boston to announce the findings.
Rumors of a
major discovery began to circulate Friday, when the press conference was first
announced.
However,
scientists said they spent three years analyzing their data to rule out any
errors.
"This
has been like looking for a needle in a haystack, but instead we found a
crowbar," said Pryke.
New
insights to why we exist
Harvard
theorist Avi Loeb said the findings provide "new insights into some of our
most basic questions: Why do we exist? How did the universe begin?
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This
long-exposure photograph taken on
August 12, 2013 shows the Milky Way
in the
clear night sky near Yangon (AFP/
File, Ye Aung Thu)
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"These
results are not only a smoking gun for inflation, they also tell us when
inflation took place and how powerful the process was," Loeb said.
John
Womersley, chief executive of the Science and Technology Facilities Council,
which funds British research into cosmology, said the advance adds to our
knowledge of one of the three key pillars of modern cosmology -- inflation,
dark matter and dark energy.
"Without
inflation we would not be here," he said.
According
to theoretical physicist Alan Guth, who proposed the idea of inflation in 1980,
described the latest study as "definitely worthy of a Nobel Prize."
Chris
Lintott, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford, said that finding
evidence of this super-fast inflation the would be considered "most
significant cosmological discovery in nearly two decades, and a huge triumph
for physics."
"It's
like all our Christmases at once," he said.
"I
doubt many cosmologists will get much sleep tonight."
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“… Let us
add another interesting layer to this: when you humans talk of the Big Bang,
you refer to the origin of your universe, but when we talk of the Big Bang, we
talk of the origin of everything. In other words, the FIRST Big Bang, the one
that preceded it all. For we are talking about the origin of everything, not
just that primordial soup that was the inception of what later developed into
your universe and your ”reality”, no, we are referring to ALL of Creation. And
as such, it all started the same way, as one single pinprick of energy, of
light, that consciousness set into motion by observing it and by setting up
parameters for it to BECOME something. It was like setting alight a match in
order to see it in the dark, for before it was ignited by consciousness, it was
not visible. It WAS, but it was not observed, and as such, it WAS NOT. But it
became ALL as soon as consciousness entered and started to observe, and by
observing started to create, and as such, the mind begat manner from energy.
But remember, matter is a mere figment of imagination, it is merely energy coalescing
into something that can be OBSERVED. So again we say, let your mind set you
free, for your mind is only holding you back by trying to see what it cannot
see. Or rather, it is holding you back because it wants to see what it already
can see, and so it overlooks everything else. But it is there already, ready to
be observed by you, just like it is observed by God. So open your eyes and let
your mind take a break, and try to connect with that part of God that is the
real you, and then, and only then, will everything come into BEing before you.
..”
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