> "Thousands of years later, Albert Einstein assumed that space and time were continuous and flowed smoothly, but we now believe that this assumption may not be valid at very small scales," Quach said.
My only source of knowledge is having read a pop-physics book or two, but I thought it was well-accepted that at "small scales", the universe is very non-continuous and chaotic?
And, reading the PR, it doesn't seem to be that breathless nor does it say it's overturning the Big Bang. It read more like "hey there might be another thing that happened during the Big Bang and that might make 'cracks' that we might be able to see".
"but I thought it was well-accepted that at "small scales", the universe is very non-continuous and chaotic?"
It is and the funny thing is this guy has a funny definition of "now" considering Max Planck discovered light travels in discrete quanta. In 1900. Around the time of Einstein submitting his first paper and before his paper on Special Relativity. I would imagine whoever signed off on the PR copy is aware of this as well as other inconsistencies. Makes you wonder.
And, reading the PR, it doesn't seem to be that breathless nor does it say it's overturning the Big Bang. It read more like "hey there might be another thing that happened during the Big Bang and that might make 'cracks' that we might be able to see".