What do you do if you just discovered direct evidence of gravitational waves from a cosmic inflation event that took place 0.0000000000000000000000000000000001 seconds after the Big Bang? If you’re Chao-Lin Kuo, you go straight to one of the men who helped found the inflation theory and you tell him to his face that his life’s work has been validated.
Andrei Linde Receives News About Gravitational Wave Breakthrough

Lisa Winter
Guest Author

Stanford University