Fresh Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 http://m.firstpost.com/world/big-bang-never-happened-suggests-new-theory-2093553.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocM Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 No surprise, and others have published non-big bang alternatives before. What's interesting about this one is that it neatly disposes with dark energy and dark matter. We'll see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unobscured Vision Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 The findings in the field of Loop Quantum Gravity have all but proven that it's more probable that we're doing "Groundhog Day" for all eternity, just on a Universe-sized scale. It also can explain "Deja Vu" phenomena that some people experience (I know, I know ... don't shoot the Messenger, folks ) and other oddities that cannot be explained and/or tested with any other framework. Big Bang is looking more and more like a result of something else rather than a beginning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctebah Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 The findings in the field of Loop Quantum Gravity have all but proven that it's more probable that we're doing "Groundhog Day" for all eternity, just on a Universe-sized scale. It also can explain "Deja Vu" phenomena that some people experience (I know, I know ... don't shoot the Messenger, folks ) and other oddities that cannot be explained and/or tested with any other framework. Big Bang is looking more and more like a result of something else rather than a beginning. It's starting to seem more plausible that the expansion of the universe will eventually slow down, reverse and the universe itself may collapse and basically restart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rippleman Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 I am not sure if anyone suggested that the "big bang" was the beginning of anything but our own observable universe/time. Just because we don't understand what was before doesn't mean it wasn't something else. Tiny dot of infinite energy? Could be an infinity(X) more then anything we could think of. We will never understand past our limited understanding. Take a sparrow, some maybe smarter then other sparrows, so take the smartest one. Hire the absolute best teachers from around the world and have them try to teach the sparrow 1+1=2. We are the sparrow in the larger picture. We will never advance past our own ability as humans. Could we evolve into higher intelligence? Sure, check back in about 10,000 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unobscured Vision Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 It's starting to seem more plausible that the expansion of the universe will eventually slow down, reverse and the universe itself may collapse and basically restart. Yep, that's LQG at work. The "Groundhog Day Theory", or as some of the Brains of the field have put it, "Temporal Causality Loop on a Universal Scale". We've all seen Star Trek, and it's not that far off from how the mechanics actually work, apparently. Some are saying that in places the expansion of the Universe has already ceased, but due to the speed of information (note, not the speed of light) that information has not reached our part of the Universe yet. It's fascinating, but grim, if it's true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unobscured Vision Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Expanding upon this, it also explains what they are observing with the current models of "Black Holes", since they aren't actually holes there's really no other name to attribute to them as of yet. Singularities aren't an appropriate term either. Rather, the physics now suggests (although this is unproven, and it's a hypothesis at the current time) that the observable Event Horizon is where is where our universe stops and a "pocket universe" begins. Think of it as a "border region" between the two. It's very bleeding edge material and hasn't been fully peer-reviewed yet. Neutron Stars and Magnatars (Super-Magnetic Neutron Stars) are pretty much the most extreme objects in our Universe, because objects any more dense than those cannot exist. The gravitational fields are still present, of course, because all of that matter is still there, technically speaking. How it is organized apparently is not important so long as it is there. Within the "Pocket Universe", the scale could be as large as our own Universe, whereas outside of it, it is the size of the "Black Hole" that created it. Strange stuff indeed, but it kind of makes sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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