Newswire: 17 Mar 2014 - SLAC - Physicists Find Evidence of Cosmic Inflation

First direct evidence of cosmic inflation supports origin theory of the universe. Almost 14 billion years ago, the universe we inhabit burst into existence in an extraordinary event that initiated the Big Bang. In the first fleeting fraction of a second, the universe expanded exponentially, stretching far beyond the view of today's best telescopes. All this, of course, has just been theory.