Big Bang Discovery Opens Doors to the "Multiverse"

[MrScorpio]

Dan Vergano
National Geographic
PUBLISHED MARCH 18, 2014

Bored with your old dimensions—up and down, right and left, and back and forth? So tiresome. Take heart, folks. The latest news from Big Bang cosmologists offers us some relief from our humdrum four-dimensional universe.

Gravitational waves rippling through the aftermath of the cosmic fireball, physicists suggest, point to us inhabiting a multiverse, a universe filled with many universes. (See: "Big Bang's 'Smoking Gun' Confirms Early Universe's Exponential Growth.&quot

That's because those gravitational wave results point to a particularly prolific and potent kind of "inflation" of the early universe, an exponential expansion of the dimensions of space to many times the size of our own cosmos in the first fraction of a second of the Big Bang, some 13.82 billion years ago.

"In most models, if you have inflation, then you have a multiverse," said Stanford physicist Andrei Linde. Linde, one of cosmological inflation's inventors, spoke on Monday at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics event where the BICEP2 astrophysics team unveiled the gravitational wave results.

Essentially, in the models favored by the BICEP2 team's observations, the process that inflates a universe looks just too potent to happen only once; rather, once a Big Bang starts, the process would happen repeatedly and in multiple ways.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/03/140318-multiverse-inflation-big-bang-science-space/#close-modal

Maybe the universe is like a bubble, that will keep expanding until it pops. And the resulting energy from end of one universe collects to create a new big bang for a another universe and the process repeats until infinity.

[brush]

1. Multiverse seens coined to gain publicity for a new discovery

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Why wouldn't it be all one big universe — multiple big bang chain reactions and pretty models and all?

I mean the universe has been defined as everything in existence, why would that need to change?

If these are entities are proofed to exist why wouldn't they be part of "the universe" (everything in existence) no matter what their properties are?

[Kablooie]

2. Other universes are thought to be materially different.

With completely different physics so that matter might not be able to form or light couldn't exist.

Our universe has very precisely balanced mathematical values that allow stars and matter to exist. Scientist have pondered why thes values are so exactly what we need to exist.
In a multiverse each universe could have different random values so that physics would be totally different. Our universe just happens to have the right combination of values to allow everything we know to exist.

This is only an hypothesis, there is no proof yet, but there is also no proof it doesn't exist either. This conjecture can be derived from some currently pondered theories of physics.

[ErikJ]

3. Mind-blowing

I havent even learned a millionth of what I'd like to know about the home planet yet!

[pinboy3niner]

4. Bazinga!

[Nanjing to Seoul]

5. Religious Bible humpers aren't going to like this.

God created science, remember? We know where the moon came from. God invented it.

Keep going with this, people more intelligent in this field than ignorant me. I would love to see where it will go.

[geckosfeet]

6. All the energy from exploding religosity heads

will contibute to the infinite big bangs.

The irony is delicious.

[Nanjing to Seoul]

7. Our best and brightest figure that it will cause an even bigger bang! - BNL

[pinboy3niner]

8. Why can't they all just be raptured already?

Oh, yeah...that's another magical thing that's not gonna happen. Unfortunately.

[Warren DeMontague]

9. It doesn't really matter whether they like it or not.

It is what it is.

[pinboy3niner]

10. That's just what we'd expect a Bible denier to say

[kickysnana]

11. Haven't we screwed up this Universe enough? Or is that the point?

No need to take care of this world there are billlllions more.

[seveneyes]

12. Here today, gone tomorrow

With infinity as the medium, anything and everything is not only possible, it's inevitable and happening right now somewhere.

There is no "one" of anything. Somewhere in this infinite world, these exact words are being written an unlimited number of times.

[Javaman]

13. we are mere bubbles in the cauldron of existence. nt