If the small hot spots look as expected, that will be a triumph for yet another scientific idea, a refinement of the Big Bang called the inflationary universe theory.

If the small hot spots look as expected, that will be a triumph for yet another scientific idea, a refinement of the big Bang called the inflationary universe theory.

We don't see superpartners around us today, but the theory goes that they dominated during the earliest stages of the universe, just after the inflationary period.