Shock Waves from the Big Bang Discovered?

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http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2014/03/a-scientific-breakthrough-lets-us-see-to-the-beginning-of-time.html?utm_source=tny&utm_campaign=generalsocial&utm_medium=facebook&mbid=social_facebook

I have a question.  If they were able to see that far back - basically 10^-35 seconds after the Bag Bang - what were the gravitational shock waves traveling across ?

Gravity was only created 10^-35 seconds ago - what were these shock waves moving across ?

 

Or was it like the Radiation Background where they found it everywhere, but really far away ?

Any astrophysicists on neowin ? 

 

 

I am not doubting this, just trying to imagine it.  I read things like this in my spare time (currently reading Our Mathetmatical Universe) - and I was hoping to get it in plain speak - most of the articles are just regurgitating other articles - and none of them know enough to put it into plain speak.

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New Big Bang evidence also hints that we may exist in a multiverse

 

As space-time inflated in the seconds after the Big Bang, it's possible that 'bubbles formed,' creating new universes.

 

 

The first direct evidence of cosmic inflation ? a period of rapid expansion that occurred a fraction of a second after the Big Bang ? also supports the idea that our universe is just one of many out there, some researchers say.

 

On Monday, March 17, scientists announced new findings that mark the first-ever direct evidence of primordial gravitational waves ? ripples in space-time created just after the universe began. If the results are confirmed, they would provide smoking-gun evidence that space-time expanded at many times the speed of light just after the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago.

 

The new research also lends credence to the idea of a multiverse. This theory posits that, when the universe grew exponentially in the first tiny fraction of a second after the Big Bang, some parts of space-time expanded more quickly than others. This could have created "bubbles" of space-time that then developed into other universes. The known universe has its own laws of physics, while other universes could have different laws, according to the multiverse concept.

 

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Aaahhh - got it !

Thanks for the post - answered my questions perfectly