captain normal [soylentnews.org] 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 (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-black-hole-that-birthed-the-big-bang/) (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 (
http://scitechdaily.com/universe-may-emerged-black-hole-higher-dimensional-universe/)has [scitechdaily.com] a decent article about the theory. If you are interested in the math, you can download a
PFD of the study [arxiv.org] from Cornell University Library.
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