By examining microwave polarisation in the Cosmic Microwave Pattern, evidence of Gravitational waves rippling through the Universe after being expanded by “inflation” has been discovered by astronomers using the BICEP 2 telescope at the South Pole. The evidence indicates that the Universe expanded at a rate that was faster than light the instant after the “Big Bang” explosion occurred at the beginning of the Universe.
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Depictoin of Big Bang. Courtesy: Royal Society of Chemistry