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Article: NASA Satellite Glimpses Universe's First Trillionth of a Second.
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- March 16, 2006
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WASHINGTON, March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientists peering back to the oldest light in the universe have new evidence to support the concept of inflation. The concept poses the universe expanded many trillion times its size in less than a trillionth of a second at the outset of the big bang.
This finding, made with NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), is based on three years of continuous observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the afterglow light produced when the universe was less than a million years old.
WMAP polarization data allow scientists to discriminate between competing models of inflation for the first time. This is a milestone ...
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