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New Light in an Old Universe - Dr. Brian Keating, Cosmologist, UCSD

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How to Study Gravitational Waves in Space

It's a micro looking for their imprint of primordial waves of gravity formed during the hypothetical inflationary epoch that persists to the formation of the cosmic background radiation. If inflation occurred, it would be 10 to the minus 36 seconds after the Big Bang. The telescope is bigger than the web telescope, which had to be origami unfolded in this orbit a million miles away from the earth. So I don't think that there's any possibility of even ever deploying a telescope like this to space. It would be more expensive than every human endeavor and the physics realm ever undertaken.

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