Space Ripples Reveal Big Bang’s Smoking Gun

…the future of the cosmos is perhaps bright and fecund, but do not bother asking about going any deeper into the past.

We might never know what happened before inflation, at the very beginning, because inflation erases everything that came before it. All the chaos and randomness of the primordial moment are swept away, forever out of our view. ((OVERBYE, DENNIS. “Space Ripples Reveal Big Bang’s Smoking Gun”. New York Times, MARCH 17, 2014. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/18/science/space/detection-of-waves-in-space-buttresses-landmark-theory-of-big-bang.html?_r=0.))”