Nearly 14 billion years ago, in the tiniest fraction of a second, our universe, then an infinitesimally small point in nothing, drew its first breath. Like the lungs of a newborn babe it fluttered, expanding, and then it reached those tendrils of existence to infinity, majestically bursting into being. This is the story of the Big Bang. The Big Bang is not merely the birth of matter, but the birth of space itself, the birth of time. We all know this story, but until now, it had absolutely no direct evidence.
A telescope, that detects the cosmic microwave background of space, has discovered ripples in space and time. These ripples exist in the afterglow of the Big Bang, they our the first tremors of the universe and the first images of gravitational waves. This data also finally confirms a link between quantum mechanics and general relativity. This study was conducted by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and a press conference was recently held. Read the article here http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140317125850.htm. Congratulations Science!
Above is the pattern of the Gravitational Waves.
Dang! I wish I was intelligent as people who look into this so I could understand it fully. It sounds extremely interesting!
ReplyDeleteWow, this is really incredible. I'll be excited to hear what else they find out in relation to this research.
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