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Today's Webtip: Physics!

Learn more about today's science headlines and share the moment a theoretical physicist is told he was right.

Writing about science is hard, and I'm not going to try to get on that bus this late in the journey.

I would rather talk about the human interest side of things. Try to imagine that moment when a theoretician is lucky enough to be told that their ideas might actually have been experimentally verified.

I'll wait.

And then I will show you what it looks like to external observers. Stanford sent out a camera crew when Chao-Lin Kuo stopped by Andrei Linde's house to inform him that they found direct evidence supporting his theory of cosmic inflation

Those of you who want a bit more background on cosmic inflation and yesterday's announcement should check out this article on www.slate.com

It's a mindbender.