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[shipperx]

From Daily Galaxy.com : 

Was Our Universe Created By A Cyclical Collision With A Parallel Universe?

String theorists Neil Turok of Cambridge University and Paul Steinhardt, Albert Einstein Professor in Science and Director of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science at Princeton believe that the cosmos we see as the Big Bang was actually created by the cyclical trillion-year collision of two universes (which they define as three-dimensional branes plus time) that were attracted toward each other by the leaking of gravity out of one of the universes. 

In their view of the universe the complexities of an inflating universe after a Big Bang are replaced by a universe that was already large. flat, and uniform with dark energy as the effect of the other universe constantly leaking gravity into our own and driving its acceleration. 
According to this theory, the Big Bang was not the beginning of time but the bridge to a past filled with endlessly repeating cycles of evolution, each accompanied by the creation of new matter and the formation of new galaxies, stars, and planets. 

Turok and Steinhardt were inspired by a lecture given by Burt Ovrut who imagined two branes, universes like ours, separated by a tiny gap as tiny as 10-32 meters. There would be no communictaion between the two universes except for our parallel sister universe's gravitational pull, which could cross the tiny gap. 

Orvut's theory could explain the effect of dark matter where areas of the universe are heavier than they should be given everything that's present. With their theory, the nagging problems surrounding the Big Bang (beginning from what, and caused how?) are replaced by an eternal cosmic cycle where dark energy is no longer a mysterious unknown quantity, but rather the very extra gravitational force that drives the universe to universe (brane-brane) interaction. 

Comments

[quinara]

Ah, but does the Universe have a Plan?

(By which I mean *brainmelt*!!)

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking the universe has enough problems what with keeping ten-dimensional space in order on top of balancing out weak and strong forces in order to create a universe that is experientially three dimensions plus time.

But you never know, it might be a change of pace for it to worry about poor wittle time-trapped (they can only go in one direction of time) formerly human demi-gods and their need to have loud sex and fall in wuv. And then, in its downtime it creates megalomaniac Cylons.

Perfectly plausible.

[paratti.livejournal.com]

Its 'Fringe' Teim;)

[quinara]

Well, I suppose we all need a hobby... (OH WAIT, maybe I shouldn't model the universe on human psychology. Food for thought, that.)

[xc-runner50.livejournal.com]

Cool. So about this Parallel Universe...is there another me there? :P

[menomegirl.livejournal.com]

Fred would have loved that article.

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

I barely even understand this, but I understand enough to know it's incredibly cool.

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

This is awesome stuff.

"Time is only linear for engineers and referees."

[queenofattolia.livejournal.com]

That's wrinkling my brain. Branes!

Thanks for posting this. I guess this proves that somewhere there IS a Mr. Spock with a goatee and a sparkly sash.

[rowanswhimsy.livejournal.com]

So Ben is Glory???