These inferences will soon be tested by similar experiments at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York State. If they are sound then they greatly extend our ability to probe events in the first moments after the Big Bang. They represent the first experimental information about conditions earlier than the first three minutes, at which point ordinary atomic nuclei began to condense from the fireball. Not at all. There is at least as much physics still to explore in those remaining instants back to the zero of time as there has been in the 12 to 15 billion years since.
Cosmic time ticks to a different pulse here.
Plenty of hors d'oeuvres came before.