Today is a great day for science, humanity and Andrei Dmitriyevich Linde—one of the main authors of the inflationary universe theory that was confirmed today. Watch his emotions as assistant Professor Chao-Lin Kuo surprises him with the news of the evidence that supports a whole life of theoretical work.


Kuo and his colleagues were the ones who got "the first images of gravitational waves, or ripples in space-time—the "first tremors of the Big Bang."