from ΛCDM to I/ΛCDM.
Astronomical observations from the South Pole through the Earth's Magnetosphere (which is weak at that point) have established that the expected signature from Cosmic Inflation, proposed first by Alan Guth, exists in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation to indicate that the Big Bang was preceeded by a very short period of exponential expansion, followed by the vacuum decay of the inflaton, and the subsequent Big Bang due to the energy of the inflaton being dumped into the newly created Minkowski spacetime of our local universe. And by "local" I mean segments of the universe that we can never see again.
This is intended as an anchor post for Daecon's great post in the News forum, for us to discuss this in Astronomy and Cosmology. This is, quite frankly, epic news. We have found out what our universe came from and seen the signature of its formation.
Here is the best article I've found: http://www.nature.com/news/telescope-captures-view-of-gravitational-waves-1.14876
Here is @Daecon's original article: http://www.thescienceforum.com/news/...ry-hailed.html
Nominated for #PostoftheMonth. Great stuff @Daecon.