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ASTRONOMERS FIND FIRST EVIDENCE OF OTHER UNIVERSES
http://www.disinfo.com/2010/12/astronomers-find-first-evidence-of-other-universes/
December 17, 2010
Eternal Inflation Amazing to think the universe has "cosmic
bruises." Via Technology Review's Physics arXiv blog:
There's something exciting afoot in the world of cosmology. Last
month, Roger Penrose at the University of Oxford and Vahe Gurzadyan
at Yerevan State University in Armenia announced that they had found
patterns of concentric circles in the cosmic microwave background,
the echo of the Big Bang.
This, they say, is exactly what you'd expect if the universe were
eternally cyclical. By that, they mean that each cycle ends with a
big bang that starts the next cycle. In this model, the universe is
a kind of cosmic Russian Doll, with all previous universes contained
within the current one.
That's an extraordinary discovery: evidence of something that occurred
before the (conventional) Big Bang.
Today, another group says they've found something else in the echo of
the Big Bang. These guys start with a different model of the universe
called eternal inflation.
In this way of thinking, the universe we see is merely a bubble
in a much larger cosmos. This cosmos is filled with other bubbles,
all of which are other universes where the laws of physics may be
dramatically different to ours.
These bubbles probably had a violent past, jostling together and
leaving "cosmic bruises" where they touched. If so, these bruises
ought to be visible today in the cosmic microwave background.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
http://www.disinfo.com/2010/12/astronomers-find-first-evidence-of-other-universes/
December 17, 2010
Eternal Inflation Amazing to think the universe has "cosmic
bruises." Via Technology Review's Physics arXiv blog:
There's something exciting afoot in the world of cosmology. Last
month, Roger Penrose at the University of Oxford and Vahe Gurzadyan
at Yerevan State University in Armenia announced that they had found
patterns of concentric circles in the cosmic microwave background,
the echo of the Big Bang.
This, they say, is exactly what you'd expect if the universe were
eternally cyclical. By that, they mean that each cycle ends with a
big bang that starts the next cycle. In this model, the universe is
a kind of cosmic Russian Doll, with all previous universes contained
within the current one.
That's an extraordinary discovery: evidence of something that occurred
before the (conventional) Big Bang.
Today, another group says they've found something else in the echo of
the Big Bang. These guys start with a different model of the universe
called eternal inflation.
In this way of thinking, the universe we see is merely a bubble
in a much larger cosmos. This cosmos is filled with other bubbles,
all of which are other universes where the laws of physics may be
dramatically different to ours.
These bubbles probably had a violent past, jostling together and
leaving "cosmic bruises" where they touched. If so, these bruises
ought to be visible today in the cosmic microwave background.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress