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amanondeathrow
17th March 2006, 21:06
Evidence of universe's first instant

By Peter N. Spotts, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Fri Mar 17, 3:00 AM ET

For a fleeting moment, the very fabric of the universe became a kind of hyperspeed spandex - stretching outward at perhaps 100 times the speed of light.

That concept, which describes the first trillionth of a second of the universe's beginnings, has gained wide acceptance among cosmologists. Now, scientists say they have discovered the first comprehensive, subtle signals from that cosmic growth spurt.
Artical (http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20060317/ts_csm/abang;_ylt=Aii00kbmRIlRkxwcDAjW8W.s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDM TA3b2NibDltBHNlYwM3MTY-)

RebelDog
21st March 2006, 11:18
Is this new?
I thought it was widely held among big-bangists that there must have been a period of massive expansion very near the beginning.

But what happened right after the Planck Epoch ended? That is the question that must be answered and can only be answered when a quantum theory of gravity is formulated.