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First Observational Test of the "Multiverse"
An anonymous reader writes "The theory that our universe is contained inside a bubble, and that multiple alternative universes exist inside their own bubbles – making up the 'multiverse' – is being tested observationally by UK physicists, who are searching for disk-like collision patterns in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation. Though CMB is generally thought of as a uniform schmear of radiation extending in all directions in our universe, in fact, they say if a multiverse exists, there ought to be imprints trapped in the muck like footprints of where our universe banged into others."
This can't be right, how can we, "inside" our own universe observe anything else "outside"our universe? Wouldn't anything we observe withing our universe be our universe? "Uni" - one. If there is some sort of a collision between "our" and "foreign" verses, wouldn't they be one verse? This is truly a bunch of bullshit.
If somehow there were multiple "universes" (whatever that would mean), why would they be colliding and what does it mean - colliding, in the sense that, our laws of physics with the gravity and space and time only make sense within our universe, so the word "colliding" wouldn't even mean anything on the outside, because on the so called outside there wouldn't be anything resembling what we have inside.
If there are multiple 'bubbles' of some sort, each one created from its own big bang, no way we can detect something that is on the outside, because anything we 'collide' with would mean that it can collide with us - it has similar enough physics to do it and whatever the bubbles are withing provides the opportunity for such collisions.
AFAIC this is all nonsense, there cannot be a division between physics that is used to observe our universe and physics that can be used to observe some form of external phenomena, so if somebody is getting a grant for it, they are just full of it and the government is again, paying for shit just because it can, it has money to burn and it has that type of a policy, not because it makes sense.
You can't handle the truth.