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.

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[jandersen]

it could have been caused by monkeys flying out of my ass.................... just sayin

I would say, when a bunch of cosmologists come up with a potential explanation - even an extraordinary one - there is at least a chance they are able to argue for a causal connection and a theory, whereas your lame put-down clearly isn't even meant to meet the same standards.

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[tysonedwards]

There seems to be a language barrier... The postulation is that we can only observe 13.5 billion light years away from us in any direction, and with it there is a wall that we can't see beyond as light, radiation, and general energy just hasn't gotten here yet. Amidst that, we see radiation that isn't uniform, but is mostly similar. As we can't observe past the edge of this wall of sorts, there may or may not be /something/ amidst the vast emptiness of the cosmos. Ergo, in a purely physical sense, there /may/ be something beyond the physical space that we can't yet see, and it may be interfering with what we'd perceive as the cosmic background radiation of our /limited, but vast/ view of the cosmos. As such, it can be that what has previously been defined as the 'universe' may just be a larger iteration of galaxies, and physically separate and adjacent - rather than occupying the same coordinate system in an inobservable way - there exists another very large 'universe' that ours may have previously interacted with, influencing the distribution of the cosmic background radiation. Think of it like "large gravity fields impacts the flow of light by bending it" except instead of inward towards our universe, portions are being pulled /outwards/ effectively reducing the amount directed towards us, or slowing it's travel.