Scientists in the USA believe they have discovered echoes from the Big Bang! A specialized telescope (called Bicep — Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization) that is located at the South Pole has detected “primordial gravitational waves.”
“In physics, gravitational waves are ripples in the curvature of space/time that propagate as a wave, traveling outward from the source. Predicted in 1916 by Albert Einstein to exist on the basis of his theory of general relativity, gravitational waves theoretically transport energy as gravitational radiation,” according to Wikipedia.
“If they do announce primordial gravitational waves on Monday, I will take a huge amount of convincing,” said Hiranya Peiris, a cosmologist from University College London. “But if they do have a robust detection … Jesus, wow! I’ll be taking next week off.”
“It’s been called the Holy Grail of cosmology,” says Peiris, “It would be a real major, major, major discovery.”