Here's the basic premise.
[quote] "The fact that there's a hot fireball at very early times: that is confirmed," Brandenberg told Live Science. "When you try to go back all the way to the singularity, that's when the problems arise." [/quote]
The article goes into how the new information is affecting what we thought we knew, and how and why our understanding is changing and growing.
[spoiler]I figured this was relevant since there was some ridiculous discussion about it. So here's some actual information. [/spoiler]
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Negative laws of physics are nice because they explain how the universe behaves without calling the need of them existing as some kind of Platonian meta-physical object. And if you deny negative laws of physics at this point, then you're just an idiot. But what we need to figure out is an explanation for the four dimensions, in a simplistic and 'no-assumptions' manner just like negative laws of physics.