!!!!! In our own universe, it would serve as a window into the forces operating at energies forever beyond the reach of particle accelerators on Earth and yield new insights into gravity itself. Dr. Kovac’s ripples would be the first direct observation of gravitational waves, which, according to Einstein’s theory of general relativity, should ruffle space-time. According to inflation theory, the waves are the hypothetical quantum particles, known as gravitons, that carry gravity, magnified by the expansion of the universe to extragalactic size. You can see how the sky is being distorted by gravitational waves, said Andrei Linde, a prominent inflation theorist at Stanford. We are using our universe as a big microscope. The sky is a photographic plate.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 15:09:43 +0000
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