New proof of cosmic inflation?

That is an epic logic fail. Other galaxies are 12 billion light years from us because the universe has been expanding in the intervening years.
Sorry, but you're the one whose logic is wonky, Darron. When we look at distant galaxies, we are looking into the distant past. What happened in the "intervening years" is completely irrelevant. For all we know, those distant galaxies are probably 20 billion light years away from us now; but we have no way of knowing that. All we can know about them is how and where they were, billions of years ago. Or are you saying that the Universe expanded in such a way that it seems, to us, to have been billions of light years across shortly after the "Big Bang", just to be confusing? That seems about on a par with the idea that God created the world just a few thousand years ago, complete with rocks with potassium/argon ratios that would make them seem much older just to test our faith. In more than forty years of study - everything from Wikipedia to advanced level University textbooks to talking with graduate students and professors - I have to say I've never seen a really convincing explanation of the "Big Bang". Ask what happened before the Bang, or what the early Universe expanded "into", and all you get is some kind of theological whiffle about "Oh, space and time began with the Big Bang, so such questions aren't really relevant," which doesn't really explain anything. I suspect that even they aren't sure, so they're dodging the question. And since there were no observers around when the Big Bang "happened", all we really have are inferences, in the Humean sense. And, Darron, you are welcome to dismiss me as a "crackpot" if you feel it's necessary, but that's just juvenile name-calling. It adds nothing of relevance to the discussion. TFS
You're doing exactly what "pseudoscientists" are often accused of doing - beginning with the conclusion ("The Big Bang happened") and then cherrypicking the "evidence" to suit. TFS
Except for all the evidence that shows the universe began with a hyper inflationary event. You're doing what crackpots do on any subject: ignoring the scientific evidence and consensus and manufacturing a controversy. TFS, there is a difference between "cherry-picking" and "being incomplete". Our knowledge which is not yet complete, suggests an inflationary period and in the absence of evidence to the contrary, may well serve as a viable theoretical model, supported by positive evidence, rather than lack of information. Sometimes science may be a theoretical science of the gaps, but the control factor is that science cannot be in conflict with natural laws. So, any alternate scientific explanations must have positive evidence and can never be in conflict with natural law.

OK, guys, that’s it for the moment. Pity, but who works in science must be prepared to accept disappointments. As those that are fascinated by scientific discoveries. :down:
BICEP2 gravitational wave result bites the dust thanks to new Planck data]

Astronomers working on the Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (BICEP2) telescope at the South Pole hit the headlines earlier this year when they claimed to have seen the first evidence for the primordial “B-mode" polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). But a new analysis of polarized dust emission in our galaxy, carried out by the Planck collaboration, has shown that the part of the sky observed by BICEP2 has much more dust than originally anticipated.

How the time flies.
This time they have confirmation.
This is coverage of the press conference.

Streamed live on Feb 11, 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_582rU6neLc Scientists at Washington’s National Science Foundation and Moscow State University have confirmed the discovery of Albert Einstein’s gravitational waves. The breakthrough, possibly the biggest in physics in a century, could be the key to new understanding of the universe. "Ladies and gentlemen! We have detected gravitational waves, we did it!," LIGO laboratory executive director David Reitze announced in Washington. FULL STORY: http://on.rt.com/74aq