Congressman Bill Foster (IL-11) spoke on the House floor to recognize an important advancement in scientific research. Recently the BICEP2 team announced its discovery of scientific evidence for cosmic inflation in the early universe. This evidence supports a specific version of the Big Bang model of the universe—a cosmic explosion followed immediately by expansion. Scientists have hypothesized that the universe underwent a period known as inflation immediately following the Big Bang, in which the universe exponentially expanded in size. The discovery by the BICEP2 team provides evidence that appears to support this theory of inflation.
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