03-17-2014, 06:21 PM
Here's the latest win for Nerd Nation
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/17/tech/i...nal-waves/
Quote:...scientists announced Monday a breakthrough in understanding how our world as we know it came to be.
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"It teaches us something crucial about how our universe began," said Sean Carroll, a physicist at California Institute of Technology, who was not involved in the study. "It's an amazing achievement that we humans, doing science systematically for just a few hundred years, can extend our understanding that far."
What's more, researchers discovered evidence for the first time of what Albert Einstein predicted in his general theory of relativity: Gravitational waves.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/17/tech/i...nal-waves/
