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Tacos, preferably al pastor, in large quantities and with Dr. Pepper. Tacos go in, science comes out.

By the by... Anybody wanting to check out our results should go to bicepkeck.org

Inflation theory has been the prevailing model for a while now... The thing is, Inflation Theory is actually a whole class of theories. We can use this detection to begin to rule out classes of inflation.

This means that what we've long suspected - that the universe expanded faster than the speed of light at just a fraction of an instant after the big bang - is right.

The short answer is that relativity tells us that particles can't move faster than the speed of light. But that speed limit doesn't apply to space itself. Inflation theory is about the expansion of space itself, which means no "stuff" moves faster than the speed of light.

There was no one single moment. You first assume that the signal is not real and you've done something horribly wrong. Then over time, you get closer and closer to convincing yourself that you haven't screwed up and you've actually discovered something real!