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[[Scientists are standing and sitting at a computer.]]
Sitting: Imprinted on the sky
Sitting: Are the gravity waves that were sloshing across the universe.
[[The sitting character holds hands a short distance apart.]]
Sitting: When it was
this big
.
Sitting: So really, we're using the entire universe
Sitting: As a giant microscope
Sitting: Pointed at itself when it was small.
[[Sitting turns to the computer.]]
Standing: That's neat.
Sitting: Yeah. But...
Standing: But what?
Sitting: Well, look.
Standing: Oh. Hmm.
Sitting: Yeah.
Standing: What...
Sitting: I don't know.
[[ The final panel is a picture of the early universe, through a Mollweide projection. The lines typical of a basketball can be seen, as well as the word 'Spalding' ]]
{{Title text: Wait till they notice the faint reflection of Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny in the E-mode.}}
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