dn't have long to wait. 73) Astrophysicists working with ground-based detectors at the\rSouth Pole and balloon-borne instruments are closing in on such structures, and may report their\rfindings soon.\r74) If the small hot spots look as expected, that will be a triumph for yet another scientific\ridea, a refinement of the Big Bang called the inflationary universe theory. Inflation says that very\rearly on, the universe expanded in size by more than a trillion trillion trillion trillionfold in much\rless than a second, propelled by a sort of antigravity. 75) Odd though it sounds, cosmic inflation is\ra scientifically plausible consequence of some respected ideas in elementary-particle physics, and\rmany astrophysicists have been convinced for the better part of a decade that it is true.
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