Gravitational Waves from the Big Bang

The Leonard Lopate Show | Mar 20, 2014

This week, scientists announced that they've found evidence of gravitational waves, a long-predicted twist in light from the Big Bang. The finding offers proof of the theory that the universe expanded extremely quickly in the first fraction of a second after it was born. Clara Moskowitz, an associate editor at Scientific American, explains what this discovery means and what it tells us about the creation of the universe. 

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