Surprising Science — March 18, 2014

Big Bang Celebration: Physicist Learns His Life’s Work Vindicated

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The biggest news in science since the Big Bang Theory confirmed that the universe indeed underwent an epoch of rapid expansion. One of the main authors of the inflationary universe theory received the news on his doorstep that his life’s work had been vindicated.

Watch the video below to see Andrei Dmitriyevich Linde’s overjoyed reaction.

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