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Albert Einstein was able to predict gravitational waves but assumed that man with his measuring instruments would never be able to detect them. He made the mistake of underestimating the curiosity and technological development capacity of the human race since interferometric laser detectors like LIGO have been able to detect them. This finding has been the beginning for scientists to start 'listening' to the universe. This opens a new paradigm to explain inflation, which is one of the unproven points in the cosmological model of the Great Expansion, and to understand what happened at the very moment the universe was created. This study is a small journey through our universe from the moment of the great explosion to the concept of the holographic universe, passing through gravitational waves, black holes, multiverses and other paradigms that provide an immediate future where interesting questions are raised (2). In our quest for truth, as a species we are able to make such great achievements and be proud of all that we are learning about the universe, but on the other hand, one might think that we are now destroying it, and perhaps leading to our own extinction.
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