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Major Astrophysics discovery?

PurpleBuddha

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A team of scientists will unveil what they bill as a "major discovery" in the field of astrophysics on Monday (March 17) in a presentation at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA).
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http://www.space.com/25066-major-astrophysics-discovery-announcement-monday.html

Does anyone have any ideas as to what this might be, or predictions?

I know, know, these things usually are a bit disappointing, especially to a lay person like myself, but my curiosity gets peaked every time a pr announcement of this nature is released.
 
Dark darkness is more likely. The vast majority of space looks pretty black, and the black parts are largely unexplored - because they're black and boring.
 
I've seen others comment, that finding these Big Bang gravity waves provides strong support to the theory of Multi-verse existence. Super Cool! Alternate universes (hopefully to explore) to no end! My favorite would be the type described by Dr Michio Kaku, in which a dinosaur-populated Earth still exists, in another dimensional universe of the multiverse, and overlapping our existence - allowing dinosaurs to be in our living rooms at this time. That's the alternate universe that I want to get to. I guess it would require a Multiverse Stargate to cross over through. I don't think warp drive would get us there. :)
 
larryman, if I interpret your post correctly, you think that in a multi-verse the other universes would be alternate universes to ours?
I rather think that the other universes are different, just liek other galaxies differ from ours and other planets differ from Earth. There might be general rules that cause similarities but there'd not be a same one in just a different time line imo.

What I wonder is: Are universes stacked into each other like these Russian dolls or do they exist literally next to each other? And what is around them? And what's that in, in turn?
 
Rhubarbodendron said:
larryman, if I interpret your post correctly, you think that in a multi-verse the other universes would be alternate universes to ours?
I rather think that the other universes are different, just liek other galaxies differ from ours and other planets differ from Earth. There might be general rules that cause similarities but there'd not be a same one in just a different time line imo.

What I wonder is: Are universes stacked into each other like these Russian dolls or do they exist literally next to each other? And what is around them? And what's that in, in turn?
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I would generally agree, but there is a limited number in which fundamental particles can be arranged and just by sheer likely size of even just our universe (not just the observable part) the probability that each of us exists more than once is high.
So getting other universes into the mix, possibly an unlimited number, makes even a mirror universe Star Trek style not totally impossible. ;)
 
Rhubarbodendron said:
larryman, if I interpret your post correctly, you think that in a multi-verse the other universes would be alternate universes to ours?
I rather think that the other universes are different, just liek other galaxies differ from ours and other planets differ from Earth. There might be general rules that cause similarities but there'd not be a same one in just a different time line imo.

What I wonder is: Are universes stacked into each other like these Russian dolls or do they exist literally next to each other? And what is around them? And what's that in, in turn?
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My understanding of other universes is... they can be anything, from imaginable, to incomprehensible. They don't have to have the same physical laws as our universe. But given that the total number of them is allowed to be near infinite, then I'm guessing many of them would have our same physical laws. And of those universes, many should have our Earth... but with different timelines. The universes with different physical laws than ours would not be understandable, and going to them would probably be instant death to anyone that did go. So I ignore those universes.

I don't know how other universes are arranged, relative to each other. They may be beside each other, they may be inside each other, or they may be both arrangement types.

I don't like the Star Treks' "Mirror Universe", or 1995 "Sliders", or any which are 'that' similar to ours - clones are boring. I do like the alternate universes of: 2001 "The Mist", and 2011 "Ferocious Planet" movies.

Update... just found this: "Our Universe May Exist in a Multiverse, Cosmic Inflation Discovery Suggests" http://www.space.com/25100-multiverse-cosmic-inflation-gravitational-waves.html?cmpid=514648
 
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Rhubarbodendron said:
larryman, if I interpret your post correctly, you think that in a multi-verse the other universes would be alternate universes to ours?
I rather think that the other universes are different, just liek other galaxies differ from ours and other planets differ from Earth. There might be general rules that cause similarities but there'd not be a same one in just a different time line imo.
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It depends on just how many universes we're talking. In multi-verse scenarios, I typically assume we're talking about an infinite number, in which case there's room for both of your theories. Some of the universes will closely mirror our own. Others will be vastly different.
 
Timelord Victorious said:
Rhubarbodendron said:
larryman, if I interpret your post correctly, you think that in a multi-verse the other universes would be alternate universes to ours?
I rather think that the other universes are different, just liek other galaxies differ from ours and other planets differ from Earth. There might be general rules that cause similarities but there'd not be a same one in just a different time line imo.

What I wonder is: Are universes stacked into each other like these Russian dolls or do they exist literally next to each other? And what is around them? And what's that in, in turn?
Click to expand...

I would generally agree, but there is a limited number in which fundamental particles can be arranged and just by sheer likely size of even just our universe (not just the observable part) the probability that each of us exists more than once is high.
So getting other universes into the mix, possibly an unlimited number, makes even a mirror universe Star Trek style not totally impossible. ;)
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I have no problems with multiple universes, but I have a great deal of difficulty with mirror universes.

In our universe there are probably millions of planets like Earth that have liquid water and went through an oxidation event from early life, just as the Earth did. There are probably even a few where primates similar in appearance to humans evolved. But they aren't human, and they aren't our mirror selves, they evolved under a different set of environmental conditions.

The same would apply to other universes. If there are billions of other universes in this bubble, some of them most likely did evolve with similar laws of physics. But that does not mean anything in that universe duplicated Earth so exactly that there are duplicate humans like on Fringe.
 
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