Sentences with phrase «early universe underwent»

The big bang theory states that the early universe underwent an enormous expansion and is still expanding today.

If confirmed, the detection would have suggested that the very early universe underwent a massively fast expansion, known as inflation, and perhaps even hinted at the existence of a multiverse.

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Early in its history (10 - 36 to 10 - 32 seconds), the universe underwent a period of short, but dramatic, hyper - inflationary expansion.

New data on the early cosmos are providing the strongest evidence yet that our universe underwent an enormous growth spurt shortly after the big bang, according to findings announced yesterday at the American Physical Society meetings in Washington, D.C..

The results have been consistent with «cosmic inflation,» a 1979 theory positing that the universe underwent a brief period of explosive growth in its earliest moments after the Big Bang.

By triggering a cloud of atoms to undergo a rapid expansion, a group of experts found that atoms could hum similarly to how the early universe may have had sung during the period of inflation.