Sentences with phrase «discover primordial gravitational waves»
In 2002, Hawking bet his University of Cambridge colleague Neil Turok that cosmologists would soon discover primordial gravitational waves and so verify the theory of inflation.
Discovering the presence of primordialgravitationalwaves opens a window into the kind of physics that happened 10 ^ -35 seconds after the Big Bang at an energy scale that is a trillion times larger than the energy regime that can be probed by the Large Hadron Collider.