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Scientists Claim 'Cold Spot' In Space Could Offer Evidence of a Parallel Universe (inhabitat.com)
New submitter LCooke writes: A international research team led by the University of Durham thinks a mysterious cold spot in the universe could offer evidence of a parallel universe. The cold spot could have resulted after our universe collided with another. Physicist Tom Shanks said, [...] "the cold spot might be taken as the first evidence for the multiverse -- and billions of other universes may exist like our own." From the report via Inhabitat: "NASA first discovered the baffling cold spot in 2004. The cold spot is 1.8 billion light years across and, as you may have guessed, colder than what surrounds it in the universe. Scientists thought perhaps it was colder because it had 10,000 less galaxies than other regions of similar size. They even thought perhaps the cold spot was just a trick of the light. But now an international team of researchers think perhaps the cold spot could actually offer evidence for the concept of a multiverse. The Guardian explains an infinite number of universes make up a multiverse; each having its own reality different from ours. These scientists say they've ruled out the last-ditch optical illusion idea. Instead, they think our universe may have collided with another in what News.com.au described as something like a car crash; the impact could have pushed energy away from an area of space to result in the cold spot." The study has been published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
it could have been caused by monkeys flying out of my ass.................... just sayin
Everything above is my opinion....YMMV
Is a much colder version of this universe?
they used the wrong kind of thermometer.
...of the gaps.
This makes me think of the eye's 'blind spot', which is actually where the nerves pass through the retina. Perhaps the cold spot is where energy passes through our universe into another, although that would suggest more energy is flowing from this one to that one.
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
i.e. reglion, a belief system defying logic.
Of course there are multiple Universes, because there could not be only 1 without some magic one off mechanism. There's not even a viable hypotesis explaining the one universe.
How would these universes *not* interact? i.e. how would all the known laws of physics magically bubble around them? So of course they interact. So of course they don't exist in their own reality.
This is what happens when you decide that logic and reason don't apply to your particular branch of science. Time travel (i.e. causality selectively violated to fix up a broken model), selective ignoring of physics, failure to face the reality of the pile of shit you've been shovling.... the growing reality that *you* are the modern "Earth-at-the-center-of-the-universe" joke scientists.
There are "cold spots" in an oven set to broil. Uniform distribution of energy is Nobody's Law. Just because we can't model things perfectly and anomalies exist, that doesn't mean it must be new physics. "1/10,000th of a temperature difference that we can't explain? It could be GOD!"
Isn't the term "parallel universe" misleading? I think anything that can affect our reality is still part of the universe, isn't it? What would the definition of "universe" be otherwise?
In the good universe, both lost because the US have several viable parties there.
You mean the water on mario's feet he uses to accumulates enough speed to perform the parallel universe traveling?
"We measure things by what we are. To the maggots in the cheese, the cheese is the universe. To the worms in the corpse, the corpse is the cosmos..."
To the people on the internet, the internet is... the field of dreams?
A century ago, before multiple galaxies were understood to exist, the word "universe" was used to refer to our galaxy, and other galaxies were called "island universes" as well. Now that we think of a universe as containing multiple galaxies, recent speculation into multiple universes has led to use of the words "multiverse" or "cosmos" instead to refer to the farthest reaches of our physical reality.
The darknet is made of dark energy.
It's just the Roseanne Barr black hole decloaking for her new show.
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
You did good, but sadly there's too much money and corruption keeping it down.
I'll keep my distance--lest it be destroyed.
would envy the level of bullshit modern "science" exhibit.
I voted Green.
Its your fault then. Thats why the Democrats hate you now.
...if only people would face facts and just vote for evil like they were told...
"His name was James Damore."
Hi there, I'm Jill Stein's other voter. In the universe where the USA is a parliamentary democracy with proportional representation, she's one of the two Green MPs being ignored by the major parties.
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95% of the electorate voted for evil. Not perfect but I really don't think evil is feeling too bad about that.
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Why has this site deteriorated to the point where weak speculation on astrophysics can somehow be related to trump vs Clinton? Are Americans so vain that this constitutes a valid discussion point? Grow up please.
Firstly the universe has no boundary from our perspective. Any other universes exist purely as a concept and most likely occupy the same space - think of a probability waveform. The sources quoted here are hardly reputable. I wouldn't get too excited about it. Sounds like a fluff piece.
You are technically right, but a natural language is not mathematics. A black hole is not a black hole, and the milky way is not made of milk.
Their job is to say "hey maybe that's a sign of multiverse, send cash".
Let's form an indipendent guild of sci-fientist and collect gov cash over our sci-fi formulated hypothesis
you will inevitably get below average.
The voids in space for galaxies are just places where there's less mass to form galaxies. Which then means there's more gravitational attraction where the galaxies are, which means stuff that is in that lower density region is pulled out making it more of a void.
Likewise with telescopes, you can get a better optic by buying a bigger telescope then putting an off-axis stop which you can move about to find the bit where the larger lens or mirror is more perfectly the right shape than the average, therefore improving optical performance.
So, no, "It's colder than average" means nothing more than saying the earth is warmer than average and on average empty space is colder than the average of all space.
" an infinite number of universes make up a multiverse; each having its own reality different from ours."
I'm pining for one without orange Hitler.
Except where the major party is one short of a filibuster proof mandate.
You know, like Joe Lieberman. There was only one of him but he managed to fuck everyone over by voting for his donors rather than his constituents or the citizens of the USA. Imagine if he'd been replaced by a Green candidate who wasn't bought by the medical insurance industry? You would have had a public option to choose from as well as any other free market choice that the private industry could bring to bear against the "incompetent and inefficient" public option.
Just one seat fucked you all up badly.
Just coming up with something stupid does not make a religion, otherwise you're just another religion. No matter HOW stupid.
And hypotheses are not religions either.
"God did it" is a hypothesis. "I know god did it" is bullshit. And "God let it happen because god must exist" is THE RESULT of a religion.
What turns "goddidit" to a non-hypothesis is that the excuse is retconned as to why the evidence against that hypothesis is invalid. What turns it into a religion is the religious heirachy and the catchetisms and rituals that christianity has.
Just because you hate science for replacing religion as an explanation of reality does not make science a bad religion.
Could it be that we're quibbling over semantics? Let's examine a word.
What is "the universe"? What if it simply means "everything, everywhere, all the time". What magicians call "all that is, seen and unseen"?
"Everything" is an all-inclusive infinitive. Logically nothing can not be included in everything.
That leaves us with the scientific quest to explore everything, and thereby exclude nothing.
Just a rambling muse before coffee...
Scruting the inscrutable for over 50 years.
Maybe everywhere else is just a warm patch.
that just makes you extra dumb.
The guy who said the election was rigged won the presidency with the second-most votes.
"alternative facts" come from...?
"Parallel universe" makes people think of the trope.
I think "perpendicular universe" would be better, and it's probably more accurate since parallel things don't intersect.
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If these universes collided, what do the universes exist within? Why would universes have collided at a particular point in time, when time is a construct of our own universe? This seems like an attempt apply the laws of physics within our universe to a situation where they don't apply at all.
"10,000 fewer galaxies"
Astronomers have had a notion of the multiverse for decades. So while the word universe originally meant all that existed, it has shifted to meaning a variety of things since there are different types of multiverses that have been theorized.
If universes were capable of colliding, then the term "parallel" would definitely be misleading (and inaccurate:-) )
Was it in Kelly Anne Conway's dead-inside stripper eyes? I think I can see an everlasting vacuum of dark energy when I look at her.
Given so-called parallel universes are in other planes of reality that we cannot ever travel to because we have no commonality of any spatial dimensions, how can a hypothesis that talks about a physical collision between the two universes, and even located at a particular geographical spot in ours, even make any sense?
when the choices are super super evil, and only kind of slightly super super evil.. the pick is evident.
I demand you stop your hate speech before i kill you!
Parallel lines on a sphere collide. If you're not in a rectilinear euclidian geometry space, parallel doesn't mean what you claim it does.
I voted Cthulhu. Why choose the lesser evil?
...this parallel universe has its own God?
that makes people think cold spots in a haunted house are ghosts.
The cold spot is simply where Jesus jizzed. It's gross but you can simply wash the sheets in 100 bleach, then burn it with fire .. not in that order.
These days "the universe" mostly means something like "all places that exist within our four-dimensional spacetime", i.e. if you could conceivably hit it if you could somehow shoot a nearly infinitely fast bullet at it
(in reality, the light speed limitation, plus the accelerating expansion of the universe, places even most of even the tiny bubble that is our visible universe beyond our ability to ever contact. We can only see the light they emitted long ago, before the exponentially expanding space between us had carried them forever out of contact).
"Parallel" universes, of most of the dozen or so theoretical forms that are currently considered plausible, are something different - there is literally no path through space that can ever reach them - they exist as a completely independent bubble of spacetime and may (probably) have completely different laws of physics, and can only interact with ours during occasional collisions within whatever higher-dimensionality system we all exist in (and possibly through gravity with some forms)
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This is a classic example of bad Internet reporting. It's gone from a the author of a paper providing evidence against one theory for the dark sport's existence saying:
"... there are more exotic explanations. Perhaps the most exciting of these is that the Cold Spot was caused by a collision between our universe and another bubble universe"
To an article stating scientists
"may have found evidence of a parallel universe"
To a post saying scientists CLAIM they have evidence for a parallel universe.
For shame.
Parallel lines do not exist in spherical geometry, so you're wrong. aybe you do not understand what parallel lines are? parallel lines: "Parallel lines are two lines that do not intersect and are exactly the same distance apart."
see the important part:-->two lines that do not intersect
The correct English is 'fewer galaxies' not 'less galaxies'.
This is a highly speculative interpretation of existing data. Other speculative interpretations are possible. The scientific method would dictate proceeding by designing clever experiments whose outcomes could rule out various alternative interpretations. I'm not convinced this is possible here, and not persuaded that this is true science. Certainly it's not "evidence".
I love science fiction as much as the next guy but when supposed 'scientist' start to deal with it as 'science fact' then we have crept in to a very dark area for science.
The 'multi-verse' is a HYPOTHESIS, in other words a 'pure ass guess', based on entirely incomplete calculations in 'multi-dimensional spaces'. If you start with math that contains multi-dimensionality what the heck do you think will 'come out of the math'. But such math has never been shown to reduce to the math we know can be used today to make predictions.So it's a pure out mathematical game, nothing wrong with that, math is cool but none of it necessarily acts as a model for reality unless you can make a prediction that no one else has made & then demonstrate it to be true.
Also, unless you can show how to 'rotate' one of these dimensions in to the 4 we know exist there would be no known mechanism to have an orthogonal universe 'collide' with our own.
I take shit like this as simply demonstration that the field of 'theoretical physics' has entirely stagnated, I don't say that to insult theoretical physicists, I once thought I'd be one...the math is fucking HARD. Einstein was a genius at a level that may not come along again for thousands of years. If there is a 'Theory of Everything' we can only hope it reduces as simply to E=MC^2 and General Relativity.
I would Define a universe as that which came forth from the Big Bang. Multiple Big Bangs would equal multiple universes. As I read it, this is clearly part of our universe. Although a separate part in a way. Headlines are clickbait.
The autism-hating, custom EpiPen-hating, Musk-hating, Qualcomm-hating Slashdot troll!
Yes, of course, making sure people have health insurance, having environmental regulations, that's all evil, wouldn't want to vote for that, would you?
The so called WMAP cold spot looks to just be some sort of data error and probably does not in fact exist
Too bad because the idea was seriously cool and would have been useful for science fiction.
Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.
Highly unlikely, when "didn't bother to even vote" was more popular than either candidate.
"My momma always said, watch out for the cold wet spot, right after two galaxies bump into each other," says Tom Shanks, aspiring local physicist.
The 9-ball on my pool table would like to have a word with you...
How's life in the hypocrite lane?
Witness BitZtream getting pwned!
Aren't they the folks who pooh-poohed using the chronometer as a tool of navigation? Well, nice to see they're still out there pitching.
Which means, it wasn't chance or lack of effort, but rather, the system was rigged against Democrats. Republicans have figured out some way to cheat our election system.
I'm sure they could quickly disprove this by the trajectory of galaxies which should have been in the area to begin with. If some were pushed away however, they might be on to something.
I thought astronomers looked into "the great void" and found that it resulted from gravitational lensing from surrounding matter?