Jim Carrey says this famous Italian-iconesque quote in his movie, The Mask, after swallowing a bunch of dynamite that subsequently explodes inside his stomach, causing his belly to, um… rapidly expand.
This last week, MSNBC Space News has an article on the Big Bang Theory, and new findings regarding the Cosmic Background Radiation.
The article describes “new evidence supporting the theory that the infant universe expanded from subatomic to astronomical size in a fraction of a second after its birth.”
“During this growth spurt, a tiny region, likely no larger than a marble, grew in a trillionth of a second to become larger than the visible universe,” said WMAP researcher David Spergel, also from Princeton University. … “We find that density fluctuations on the 1 [billion] to 10 billion light-year scale are larger than density fluctuations on the 100 million light-year scale,” Spergel said. “That is just what inflation theory predicts.”
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