Sorry. I'm might be getting carried away with how I'm wording things. I'm just happy there's finally other people I can talk about these things with.
There was a huge new discovery by the BICEP telescope in the Antarctic. So big Stanford announced they were going to announce it. Anyways, the telescope measures the polarization of light from the Cosmic Background Radiation; the radiation left over from the Big Bang that is ever present in the universe. By measuring this polarization, they can look for signatures of the original structure just moments after the universe. However one polarization in particular is very exciting. One that is polarized at 45 degrees and "jiggles" as it travels. There's only one thing we know of that could cause this: gravitational waves. This is huge for science, because it disproves a large number of theories of expansion of the universe, such as dark matter being made of axions. But the biggest consequence is one that has ground breaking repercussions; these gravitational waves had to happen at the quantum level. They happened less than 10^-12 seconds after the creation of the universe, when it was just a few meter across. At the current size of the detected region, they happened on the level of individual particles. The reason this is such a large discovery, is that it proves gravity exists at the quantum level, bringing us closer to marrying relativity and quantum theory.
A couple of great articles on the subject:
http://www.nature.com/news/gravitational-wave-finding-causes-spring-cleaning-in-physics-1.14910
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gravity-waves-cmb-b-mode-polarization/
And a video if you like that better than reading all this: