“We used to think the early universe was sort of like a big explosion”, enthused Professor Gurns, Physics Chair at Stultorum College. “Then we thought it was more like a big ball of string. Now we think it’s sort of like a puffer fish! It’s very exciting.”
The Professor, at one time a resident of Redfern, then handed us a brightly coloured drink with a small paper umbrella in it.
Dr D’Avril of the Prima Institute added: “There’s just something very heart-warming about gargantuan primordial gravitational waves. And now that we know we’re barking up the right tree, think of all the complex mathematics we can build from this!”
However, Dr Poisson of ANNU was less sanguine. “It’s all very well to build huge telescopes,” he said morosely. “But is it too much to ask for evidence of the universe’s baby steps not to show up three weeks after someone’s completed a very mathematically sound paper arguing that it was born with wheels?”
Dr Poisson also offered us a drink, but without the paper umbrella.
