That Moment When the "Father of Inflation" Learns of the Detection of Gravitational Waves

Andrei Linde, a professor in the Department of Physics at Stanford University, is one of the main authors of the inflationary universe theory, that the universe underwent a brief but remarkably accelerated expansion immediately following the Big Bang. Today, scientists announced that they've found direct evidence of primordial gravitational waves, which would provide a "smoking […]