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University of Minnesota Co-leads Team that Discovers Evidence of
the 'First Tremors of the Big Bang' [March 18, 2014]   (Targeted
News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) ST. PAUL, Minn., March
17 -- University of Minnesota issued the following news release:
New data from a nationwide team of researchers gives direct
evidence of the "first tremors of the Big Bang," providing
groundbreaking new information about the earliest beginnings of
our universe. The University of Minnesota co-led the research
along with Harvard University, California Institute of
Technology (Caltech), and Stanford University.   Researchers
from the BICEP2 Collaboration today announced the first direct
evidence for this cosmic inflation. Their data represents the
first images of gravitational waves or ripples in space-time,
and confirm a deep connection between quantum mechanics and
general relativity. These waves have been described as the
"first tremors of the Big Bang