Interesting article on Wired News today:

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NASA Looks Way Back to Big Bang

America's space agency plans to use Einstein's theories -- and some
multimillion-dollar telescopes -- to uncover what was going on in the
universe just seconds after the Big Bang took place.
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Obviously I don't understand it well enough. I thought that dark energy caused an acceleration of the universe's expansion. Wouldn't that mean that we wouldn't be able to measure gravitacally the Big Bang?

The article was interesting but it just confuses what I "thought" I knew.

well heck it doesnt take a rocket scientist or multi-million dollars to tell you what happened seconds after the big bang...

Stuff was still exploding! And stuff went flying out of a teeny little space...