The chips that saw the Big Bang's fingerprints [News].

In March, a team of astronomers announced some very big, potentially Nobel Prize?winning news: the first sighting of gravitational waves that filled the very early universe. The waves could be an echo of "inflation"–a brief but explosive period just after the big bang when the universe is thought to have ballooned enormously in size. If confirmed, the discovery opens a window back to that time, practically the beginning of time itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]