Was Our Universe Created By a Cyclical Collision With a Parallel Universe? (A Galaxy Classic)

String theorists Neil Turok of Cambridge University and Paul Steinhardt, Albert Einstein Professor in Science and Director of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science at Princeton believe that the cosmos we see as the Big Bang was actually created by the cyclical trillion-year collision of two universes (which they define as three-dimensional branes plus time) that were attracted toward each other by the leaking of gravity out of one of the universes.

In their view of the universe the complexities of an inflating universe after a Big Bang are replaced by a universe that was already large. flat, and uniform with dark energy as the effect of the other universe constantly leaking gravity into our own and driving its acceleration. 

According to this theory, the Big Bang was not the beginning of time but the bridge to a past filled with endlessly repeating cycles of evolution, each accompanied by the creation of new matter and the formation of new galaxies, stars, and planets. 

Turok and Steinhardt were inspired by a lecture given by Burt Ovrut who imagined two branes, universes like ours, separated by a tiny gap as tiny as 10-32 meters. There would be no communictaion between the two universes except for our parallel sister universe's gravitational pull, which could cross the tiny gap. 

Orvut's theory could explain the effect of dark matter where areas of the universe are heavier than they should be given everything that's present. With their theory, the nagging problems surrounding the Big Bang (beginning from what, and caused how?) are replaced by an eternal cosmic cycle where dark energy is no longer a mysterious unknown quantity, but rather the very extra gravitational force that drives the universe to universe (brane-brane) interaction. 

Casey Kazan 

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 Source: http://endlessuniverse.net/ http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/ngt1000/

Comments

[James]

32 meters apart! That doesn't make me feel good. So we are always 32 meters away from another big bang! I need a cigarette.

[notworried]

James, how far are we from that side of the universe? How fast would the effects propagate through our universe. Would we see it coming? I think there is nothing for us to worry about in this lifetime....and if there is im sure it would end in a blink of an eye...so once again no need to worry

[thelastsucker]

There will be always one elemental question: Where did the very first universe come from?

[dirk alan]

the universe is a 4d mobius strip.

[John C]

Not 32 metres, but 10^-32 metres. Rather closer.

[EvilCosmicMonkeyfrom Knoxville]

The universes are connected together like a daisy chain, or else stacked on top of one another like a stack of old fashioned LP's.
This would explain the appearance of phenomena like UFO's, ghosts, doppelgangers & other strange things. Maybe.

The Multiverse would appear to make sense as a concept.

[wayno]

how/where did the first universe in the never ending cycle come about? The cycle must have started somehow.

[pfon71361]

An endless cycle of brane-brane mash-ups , Big Bangs, expansions of the universes then everthing starting over again. There would be no begining and no end. Either you are comforted by that concept or dissatisfied by it. There dosen't seem to be a middle ground here.

[Ramkumar]

I know that for us to imagine that positron and electron created out of nothing in an instant is not easy..But the fact is that the entire oberservable universe is the product of a single vaccum fluctuation ...In quantum mechanics it is possible for a universe to be created out of nothing ..with no net energy ....

[MR Dana Manley]

Yea, but one is so big and slow and the other tiny and fast we will never be aware of their existence except for anomalies of leakage.

[EvilCosmicMonkeyfrom Knoxville]

Interdimensional leakage through through the branes / barriers would account for a lot of things ( Maybe UFO's / ghosts / angelic beings / doppelgangers ). I'm trying not to get into the murky depths of pseudo - scientific New Age nonsense.

[MR Dana Manley]

Yea, but one is so big and slow and the other tiny and fast we will never be aware of their existence except for anomalies of leakage.