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A revolution has come in the first of the Big Bang’s 4 cornerstones

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A revolution has come in the first of the Big Bang’s 4 cornerstones
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There’s a huge problem with our attempts to uncover the origins of the Universe: we only see our Universe as it is today, 13.8 billion years after the conditions marking the hot Big Bang first came into existence. Sure, we look at objects or events that occurred very far away, and by doing so, we can see the Universe as it was long ago, with the arriving light encoding the conditions that were present when that light was emitted. But because it’s so far away, even with our biggest, most powerful

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