How We Could Study the First Nanoseconds of the Universe

The oldest light we can see comes from when the universe was less than 400,000 years old, so how can we study those first few moments of history?

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Sources:

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https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.08797.pdf

Images:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Spacetime_lattice_analogy.svg
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12949
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1-3eClv_TY
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ilc_9yr_moll4096.png
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https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10127
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LISA-waves.jpg
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30093
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10426
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