Riding Gravity Waves to the Big Bang and Beyond

Once again, Einstein’s theory of relativity is confirmed by scientists. Next stop: Creation.

Champagne bottles were uncorked in physics labs around the world this week when a team of scientists announced they had finally achieved a long cherished dream, detecting the elusive gravity waves predicted by Albert Einstein 100 years ago. This remarkable discovery, which confirmed the last major prediction of Einstein’s theory of general relativity and opens up a whole new way to explore the universe, will almost certainly merit a Nobel Prize in Physics.

In 1916 Einstein himself didn’t believe these faint gravity waves could...