If the small hot spots look as expected, that will be a triumph for yet another scientific idea, a refinement of the Big Bang called the inflationary universe theory.

• 假如那些小热点看上去同预计的一致,那就意味着又一科学理论获得了胜利,这种理论完善了大爆炸论,亦称宇宙膨胀说。