Comments on: Major announcement on monday 17th….

By: SteveS

SteveS — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 23:42:52 +0000

Helps make more sense of it – Thanks

By: bowser

bowser — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 03:24:53 +0000

Every explosion has and is a period of rapid inflation.

By: RobVG

RobVG — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 01:37:48 +0000

Check this out: Inflation It's a new one on me.

By: ER

ER — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 20:06:38 +0000

Its the amount of time between the moment the light changes and when the jerk behind you leans on his horn.

By: bowser

bowser — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 23:35:14 +0000

I understand this is a big discovery, and I don’t understand the ramifications at all.

I’ll take at face value the excitement of those more knowledgeable than I, I just wish I knew why they were so excited.

By: SteveS

SteveS — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 15:21:21 +0000

From what I gather inflation was the cause of the big bang and the expansion was the result although signs of inflation are in the gravational waves in the explansion. It’s above my grasp at times so I could be wrong.

From the Space.com article:

Still, there is much more to learn about our universe’s first few moments. For example, astronomers still have no idea what the substance that propelled inflation — dubbed the “inflaton” — actually is, Loeb said.
“It’s not yet a victory of theoretical physics that we see evidence for a process that took place early on,” he said. “We really need to understand what this substance — this inflaton — is. And until we do that, it’s just like dark matter or dark energy — we give it a name, but we don’t know what it is.”

By: RobVG

RobVG — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:30:09 +0000

And is it different than the “expansion” that Hubble discovered.

By: DanS

DanS — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 12:23:17 +0000

Gravitational Waves from Big Bang Detected

By: SteveS

SteveS — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 15:22:51 +0000

Astronomers have found the first direct evidence of cosmic inflation, the theorized dramatic expansion of the universe that put the "bang" in the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago, new research suggests. If it holds up, the landmark discovery — which also confirms the existence of hypothesized ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves — would give researchers a much better understanding of the Big Bang and its immediate aftermath.

Space.com The age remains the same.

By: ER

ER — Sun, 16 Mar 2014 22:20:42 +0000

It was about that time when it was first demonstrated to me (and I was a state-of-the-art professional Silicon Valley programmer (minis and Unix workstations) at the time), I remarked “This will never catch on, it looks like some kind of CB Radio for geeks.”