I was traveling most of the day yesterday, and only got to see this video of Stanford physicist Andrei Linde being told that his 30-year-old theory about inflation and the Big Bang has been confirmed.

To Andrei Linde, the eminent Moscow-born cosmologist at Stanford University, the end of the universe is nigh. In a startling new set of calculations, Linde and his physicist wife have just proposed ...

How would you feel if your life’s work was finally proven? An online video shows what that feeling looks like when Stanford University physics professor Andrei Linde finds out his Big Bang theory has ...

On Monday, a team of scientists announced that the BICEP2 telescope, at the South Pole, had detected gravitational waves that could be traced to a tiny fraction of a second after the Big Bang, lending ...

andrei-linde-finds-out-he-was-right-big-bang-inflation-theory.jpg Assistant professor Chao-Lin Kuo, at right, surprises Stanford University professor Andrei Linde when he tells him new evidence has ...

No matter how impressed or intrigued you were to hear that researchers had found the "smoking gun" for the universe's incredible Big Bang expansion, your reaction cannot compare to that of Andrei ...

It’s been two weeks since Stanford physics professor Andrei Linde found out that his Big Bang theory was true, but he’s still reeling from the repercussions. Since the announcement was made public ...

Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced Monday that they finally found evidence that the universe underwent rapid expansion a fraction of a second after the Big Bang ...

“Five sigma.” When you’re a physicist and founding father of a theory that has gone unproven over the course of thirty years, there are few words better to hear. And those are the words that greeted ...

For most of us, “inflation” is a term that comes up only in conversations about the economy or flat tires. But for many cosmologists, inflation is the ultimate word in understanding how the universe ...

Andrei Linde, the Harold Trap Friis Professor of Physics at Stanford University, has been awarded the 2014 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics for his work in developing the theory of cosmic inflation, the ...