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Theory: Our Universe is a Black Hole in a Higher-Dimensional Universe

posted by azrael on Monday August 18 2014, @02:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the if-aware-of-us-it-is-as-little-more-than-ants dept.

captain normal writes:

The big bang poses a big question: if it was indeed the cataclysm that blasted our universe into existence 13.7 billion years ago, what sparked it?

Three Perimeter Institute researchers have a new idea about what might have come before the big bang. It’s a bit perplexing, but it is grounded in sound mathematics, testable, and enticing enough to earn the cover story in Scientific American (pay-walled), called "The Black Hole at the Beginning of Time".

What we perceive as the big bang, they argue, could be the three-dimensional "mirage" of a collapsing star in a universe profoundly different than our own. SciTechDaily has a decent article about the theory. If you are interested in the math, you can download a PDF of the study from Cornell University Library.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 19 2014, @01:03PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 19 2014, @01:03PM (#83040)
    And in none of them is that show funny.