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'... Physicists announced Thursday that they now have the smoking gun
that shows the universe went through extremely rapid expansion in the
moments after the big bang, growing from the size of a marble to a
volume larger than all of observable space in less than a
trillion-trillionth of a second. ...'


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060317/...smic_inflation

I don't understand it. ... Is this meaningful.

Can someone explain?