In case you woke up with your mind relatively intact on this spring morning, some of the world’s leading astrophysicists are here to blow it to pieces.
Scientists announced Thursday the exciting results of the European Space Agency’s Planck space probe experiment, which observed conditions about the universe in the milliseconds after the Big Bang by looking at background radiation in the sky. They found that scientists’ theory of inflation—that the universe expanded in a sudden rush in a fraction of a second after the Big Bang—was actually correct. Which is pretty incredible, because the theory had been based sheerly on abstract math. Lo and behold, the first observable data about the moments directly after the Big Bang show the inflation model is exactly what actually happened.
“We’ve uncovered a fundamental truth of the universe,” said George Efstathiou of Cambridge University, who announced the results. They also uncovered some additional little details, like the universe is about 80 million years older than scientists had thought, and filled with slightly more regular matter and less dark matter than they’d thought.
So you’d think all the scientists would be psyched, right? Pats on the back, champagne all around. Especially the guys who camee up with the inflation theory in the first place—it’s widely thought they could win a Nobel Prize.
Except those guys are troubled. Associated Press reports:
Efstathiou said the pioneers of inflation theory should start thinking about their own Nobel prizes. Two of those theorists – Paul Steinhardt of Princeton and Andreas Albrecht of University of California Davis – said before the announcement that they were sort of hoping that their inflation theory would not be bolstered.
That’s because taking inflation a step further leads to a sticky situation: An infinite number of universes.
In order for inflation theory to work—and it was confirmed as being a reality yesterday—”that split-second of expansion may not stop elsewhere like it does in the observable universe,” the scientists say. “That means,” notes AP, “there are places where expansion is zooming fast, with an infinite number of universes that stretch to infinity.”
So the idea of an infinite number of universes existing in parallel to our own universe is now no longer the stuff of sci-fi, but the most likely reality as interpreted by our most advanced science.
“You can get very, very strange answers to problems when you start thinking about what different observers might see in different universes,” Efstathiou said.
Thanks a lot, science. Our brains have now officially imploded.
March 21, 2013 at 6:42 pm, Ettore Greco said:
Erroneously, traditional science theorizes that all energy existing in the Universe converged in One Point (with its own Space) and that from this Single Point, about 14 billion years ago, the whole Universe was created.
Nevertheless, this theory is without foundations and destined to remain inconclusive.
Its contradictions originate from Einstein's faulty conclusions and from the reverence shown by modern scientists who are too afraid to take a new stand that may not be "aligned" with the late scientist.
Einstein believed that the Universe was like one closed Space and that one fixed number of atoms had always existed hence he did not believe that new atoms are constantly formed from waves. The Jewish scientist also believed the Space to be independent from the concept of Time. In this regard, his confusion may have originated from that word “Makom” which is used in the Bible to define without distinction God and also Space.
Instead, any space (even the hypothetical original Point of energy) is always divisible. Each Space could be constantly split by one Movement that occurs at one Time.
There are no Time and Movement if there is no Space.
There are no Movement and Space without Time.
There are no Space and Time without Movement.
But if one of the three exists also the other two exist.
If the Creation began by One Point existing in one Space prior to the Big Bang that same Point could not be the beginning of Time and Creator of All things.
One Space before the Big Bang necessarily implies also the presence of a Time pre-existing that same event.
Furthermore, one indivisible Point could not exist anyhow.
In fact, the smallest Space could only be a sphere and even if the original Point of Energy (prior to the Big Bang) was infinitely small it could not have been a sphere. The sphere has a perimeter at the diameter but also smaller perimeters as we move upward or downward from the larger diameter. The concept of “infinitely small” precludes the possibility of smaller perimeters. The unimaginable Point, infinitely small (smaller than a sphere) and indivisible, if exploded would have spread its energy at once. The lack of Space in the indivisible Point infinitely small eliminates the possibility of Time and Movement for the Creation of the Universe.
While instead the Universe is created in Time.
Thus, the Universe did not begin from One Space or from an indivisible Point (which does not exist).
It is difficult for us to imagine the Creation also because God, as the First Source, caused the energy to expand but was never moved by any other preceding cause.
The concept of causality existing in our World does not apply to God and Its Creation.
In our World, life is a constant chain reaction.
Everything we experience is the effect of a previous cause and also the cause for a new effect.
In fact, we have no knowledge of any source that is now moving and that was not previously moved by another source.
But how can any one "First Existence" evolve from nothing?
Any existence (that we know of) lives always restricted within the three concepts Time, Space and Movement.
As, for example, at any moment in Time you occupy one Space during your life which is Movement.
The three concepts always exist together, or else is the lack of existence in our dimension.
Time, Space and Movement started simultaneously when God, from a dimension of Stability, caused one Movement (Quantum mechanics) which symmetrically fragments and recombines all energy to form in Time one expanding Space, the Universe.
Since the event of the Big Bang, the Universe is like One Mirror split into many small mirrors which are constantly joining and separating through this same Movement.
Like in a big puzzle, every edge of each small mirror is symmetrically opposite and complementary to the mirror standing next on its side. Two contiguous small mirrors are attracted by this natural Movement and together they generate a new and third form of the same energy.
This is how the Universe continues in new forms to always expand.
God's Idea fragmented Its energy, since the event we call Big Bang, to spread It in one expanding Universe (dimension with Time, Space and Movement) that exists to fill the infinity of the Void (dimension without Time, Space and Movement).
It is an inconceivable Idea for us which we live limited by those 3 concepts.
Quantum mechanics is God's instrument that constantly re-unites and re-separates all energy in order to Always create new forms.
The concept "Always", so unreachable for us, is the endless bridge between one limited dimension (the Universe) and One Infinite (the Void).
What is beyond the Universe and beyond Time?
If it is true that we could count Time backwards 13 billion years or even 14 billion, why not also 15 billion?
Before 14 billion years ago (and before the Space of the Universe) Time did not exist.
What then?
Absolute Stability, another unreachable concept.
http://www.wavevolution.org/en/humanwaves.html
http://www.wikinfo.org/Multilingual/index.php/Wavevolution
March 21, 2013 at 7:41 pm, Gabriela Vivar said:
Ha.
March 21, 2013 at 8:48 pm, Ruben R Diaz said:
In a universe of nearly infinite possibilities you will have nearly infinite results which, to me, means a multi-verse makes the most sense.
March 21, 2013 at 9:53 pm, Steve Fohey said:
Oh.. ok.. science.. you are something else.
March 21, 2013 at 6:42 pm, Crazy sci-fi plot device now soft of a real thing ● Pop Loser said:
[...] So, um, you know how sci-fi likes to use that ridiculous plot device where there are infinite universes? Well, I don’t really understand much about the science in this article, but apparently the infinite universe theory is now a thing that potential Nobel prize winning scientists believe in. (I have always wanted an my own evil doppelgänger.) [via] [...]
March 22, 2013 at 8:38 am, Shelby Mustang Biaatchh said:
Mind=Blown
March 22, 2013 at 11:30 am, Check out the universe’s earliest baby pictures | Death and Taxes said:
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March 22, 2013 at 4:35 pm, Bruce W Bean said:
We can be certain that this is not correct. It is at best today's best guess.
March 22, 2013 at 8:48 pm, Joe Bedogne said:
Yeah Bruce because you are smarter than Stephan Hawking! You clearly know more about the universe than world renouwned physisits. I am sure you put the hours and years of work these people have to come to your uneducated conclusion based all on your opinion.
April 21, 2013 at 4:21 pm, Al Nieto said:
This comment section is to discuss not to dis Bruce or anyone else.
Hang up please……
March 22, 2013 at 6:30 pm, Check out the universe’s earliest baby pictures | Brav's Bookmarks said:
[...] leftover heat and light that’s still lingering in the universe from the Big Bang. After 13.8 billion years—the new estimated age of the universe—the microwaves were just 2.7 degrees above absolute [...]
March 23, 2013 at 1:22 am, Matt Davey said:
Funny when a scientist says "..expansion may not stop elsewhere…." a journo always turns that in to a definite rather than a possible. Logically, if he says "may" he is also saying "may not", So "there may not be" needs to be considered as well – so it is equally as likely that this is the only universe. But I guess that makes for a less interesting article. How can one be more likely that the other?