Physicist rejoices as he learns his Big Bang theory is correct

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Today is a great day for science, humanity and Andrei Dmitriyevich Linde—one of the main authors of the inflationary universe theory that was confirmed today. Watch his emotions as assistant Professor Chao-Lin Kuo surprises him with the news of the evidence that supports a whole life of theoretical work.

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Kuo and his colleagues were the ones who got "the first images of gravitational waves, or ripples in space-time—the "first tremors of the Big Bang."


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