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The universe is expanding 9 percent more quickly than expected, telling us there’s something we’re missing. Could it be a new type of particle?
The recent BICEP2 observations – of swirls in the polarisation of the cosmic microwave background – have been proclaimed as many things, from evidence of the Big Bang and gravitational waves to something strange called the multiverse.
If the Big Bang theory is just a “theory,” are there other hypothetical explanations for the origin of the known universe?
