This will probably end up being a pointless topic, but hey, we have nothing better to talk about around here, right? Of course, this is a few weeks old, but I'm sure most of you didn't know, so... well, here:
"New NASA space-probe observations of the oldest light in the cosmos are the most direct evidence yet that the universe expanded extremely quickly immediately after the big bang, physicists say.
Charles Bennett of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, led the team overseeing NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP). He and colleagues announced the new results Thursday in a teleconference."
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