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posted by chromas on Sunday December 30 2018, @04:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the unterminated-strings-cause-inflation dept.

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Our universe: An expanding bubble in an extra dimension

According to string theory, all matter consists of tiny, vibrating "stringlike" entities. The theory also requires there to be more spatial dimensions than the three that are already part of everyday knowledge. For 15 years, there have been models in string theory that have been thought to give rise to dark energy. However, these have come in for increasingly harsh criticism, and several researchers are now asserting that none of the models proposed to date are workable.

In their article, the scientists propose a new model with dark energy and our Universe riding on an expanding bubble in an extra dimension. The whole Universe is accommodated on the edge of this expanding bubble. All existing matter in the Universe corresponds to the ends of strings that extend out into the extra dimension. The researchers also show that expanding bubbles of this kind can come into existence within the framework of string theory. It is conceivable that there are more bubbles than ours, corresponding to other universes.

Journal Reference:
Souvik Banerjee, Ulf Danielsson, Giuseppe Dibitetto, Suvendu Giri, Marjorie Schillo. Emergent de Sitter Cosmology from Decaying Antiā€“de Sitter Space. Physical Review Letters, 2018; 121 (26) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.261301


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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 30 2018, @11:28PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 30 2018, @11:28PM (#780098)

    I expect we will see a lot more physics like this from Canadian "scientists" now that they've legalized hard drugs in Canada.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 31 2018, @01:01AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 31 2018, @01:01AM (#780121)

    Hard drugs like alcohol?