Dominion

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at the end of one era and not quite at
the beginning of another.
Maps no longer fit the new territory.
In order to make sense of it all,
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<strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><p style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: windowtext;">New evidence from space supports Stanford physicist's theory of how universe began

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<strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Stanford Report, March 17, 2014

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Bjorn Carey, Stanford News Service

<p style="margin-top: 5.0pt; margin-right: 9.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 13.5pt; text-align: justify;"><p style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">The detection of gravitational waves by the BICEP2 experiment at the South Pole supports the cosmic inflation theory of how the universe came to be. The discovery, made in part by Assistant Professor Chao-Lin Kuo, supports the theoretical work of Stanford's Andrei Linde.

<p class="default" style="margin-top: 5.0pt; margin-right: 9.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 13.5pt; text-align: justify;"><p style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">Almost 14 billion years ago, the universe we inhabit burst into existence in an extraordinary event that initiated the Big Bang. In the first fleeting fraction of a second, the universe expanded exponentially, stretching far beyond the view of today's best telescopes. All this, of course, has just been theory.

<p class="default" style="margin-top: 5.0pt; margin-right: 17.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: .25in; text-align: justify;"><p style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">Researchers from the BICEP2 collaboration today announced the first direct evidence supporting this theory, known as "cosmic inflation." Their data also represent the first images of gravitational waves, or ripples in space-time. These waves have been described as the "first tremors of the Big Bang." Finally, the data confirm a deep connection between quantum mechanics and general relativity.

<p class="default" style="margin-top: 5.0pt; margin-right: 17.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: .25in; text-align: justify;"><p style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">Gravitational waves squeeze space as they travel, and this squeezing produces a distinct pattern in the cosmic microwave background. Gravitational waves have a "handedness," much like light waves, and can have left and right-handed polarizations.