Gravitational waves and the inflation of certainty

Gravitational waves and the inflation of certainty

On 17 March 2014, the science and technology blog of the prestigious newspaper The New Yorker announced, “A scientific breakthrough lets us see to the beginning of time”. Lawrence M. Krauss, renowned physicist and author of A Universe From Nothing: Why There is Something Rather than Nothing, commented in his article on the news that went around the world, heralding a landmark moment in the history of science.