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Data from NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) showed evidence of a huge void in the universe spanning one billion light years. Scientists say this void may be the evidence of another universe beyond our own.
NASA’s WMAP satellite is gathering important data to know more about the origins of the universe. It measures the temperature of the radiant heat after the big bang and looks at the events that occurred in the first trillionth of a second in the universe.
Astronomers collected this WMAP data and analyzed it and announced they found a huge void in the universe in the Constellation of Eridanus, one billion light years across.
The size of the hole is equivalent to 10,000 times the size of our galaxy or 400 times the distance to Andromeda, the nearest galaxy to Milky Way galaxy. This void has far fewer materials such as stars, nebulae, dust and other material compared to other parts of the universe.
The dimension of the hole is so big, astronomers say there are no current cosmological theories to explain this strange phenomenon in the universe. Some scientists are speculating with theoretical models "that might predict the existence of “giant knots” in space known as topological defects."
However, in a bold statement, another scientist said the void signifies there is a parallel universe beyond ours with galaxies and solar systems. Laura Mersini-Houghton, a physics professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, told the media it is “… the unmistakable imprint of another universe beyond the edge of our own“.
The idea of an alternative, or parallel universe has been around in Sci-Fi literature and movies, but there has been no physical proof. If Mersini-Houghton’s claim is right, Erdanus’ giant hole would be the first experimental evidence of the presence of another universe.
As paternitytestinglabs.com reports: The implications of this possibility are obviously of huge importance for everybody, but it also has further relevance for the astrophysics community as it would bring support for the hotly debated string theory and other central debates.
As more data is being gathered from WMAP, astronomers can see whether Mersini-Houghton and colleagues’ theory of entangled universes is real or not. Her model also predicts the existence of two voids -- one in the northern hemisphere that was found by WMAP, and she claims there must be another void in the southern hemisphere.
If Mersini-Houghton’s theory is correct, then there may be more than one universe. I hope this announcement will make scientists join forces to find out more info.
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When we can calculate whether the void is growing or shrinking, we will be able contemplate theory more easily.
If it is shrinking, it will lend more credit to my own theory of universal cellular division.
Good find C.
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Something to ponder.
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@ phree
When we can calculate whether the void is growing or shrinking, we will be able contemplate theory more easily.
If it is shrinking, it will lend more credit to my own theory of universal cellular division.
Good find C. Hi Phree do you have a link for your theory would love to read it. If you like I can share it to my friends. Cheers.
@ Bob Ewing
Something to ponder. Yes, we have long ways to go to know more about it, but is a good start. -
a parallel universe. that's mad interesting, cgull. good post. we need to make one of those star trek voyager things...and hit warp speed...
what was the ship called? was it voyager?
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@ Navin Vaswani
a parallel universe. that's mad interesting, cgull. good post. we need to make one of those star trek voyager things...and hit warp speed...
what was the ship called? was it voyager? Yes, I have stopped watching after they ended. It should be Voyager. They also had the worm hole in Star Trek DS9, I don't whether they meant parallel universe there. -
@ Chris V. (cgull)
Yes, I have stopped watching after they ended. It should be Voyager. They also had the worm hole in Star Trek DS9, I don't whether they meant parallel universe there. The worm hole in Deep Space 9 led from the alpha quadrant to the gamma quadrant, i.e. not a parallel universe, but a different area of the same one.
In Star Trek Voyager, a worm hole led two Ferengi to the delta quadrant. It was discovered during Star Trek The Next Generation. Two Ferengi took a shuttle through it, and disappeared because the distant end was not stable. Those Ferengi are the ones that showed up in Star Trek Voyager.
That said, there are references to parallel universes in Star Trek. The Original Series has one, The Next Generation has something that looks like one, Deep Space Nine has one, Star Trek Voyager has a reference to what could be a parallel universe, and Star Trek Enterprise has one as well. -
The Enterprise - that was the name of the ship!
Jean Luc Picard for life!
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Reading stuff like this makes me want to live forever...just to see what will become of the human race after they really start exploring space...Star Trek way! LOL!
Very good post, cgull!
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@ Bart B. Van Bockstaele
The worm hole in Deep Space 9 led from the alpha quadrant to the gamma quadrant, i.e. not a parallel universe, but a different area of the same one.
In Star Trek Voyager, a worm hole led two Ferengi to the delta quadrant. It was discovered during Star Trek The Next Generation. Two Ferengi took a shuttle through it, and disappeared because the distant end was not stable. Those Ferengi are the ones that showed up in Star Trek Voyager.
That said, there are references to parallel universes in Star Trek. The Original Series has one, The Next Generation has something that looks like one, Deep Space Nine has one, Star Trek Voyager has a reference to what could be a parallel universe, and Star Trek Enterprise has one as well. Thanks for the information Bart, sounds great, wonder who wrote all this for them, NASA engineers?. II have to rewatch them from scratch. It was a great show had so many futuristic elements. I still miss the Borg and Picard fights. -
@ Chris V. (cgull)
Thanks for the information Bart, sounds great, wonder who wrote all this for them, NASA engineers?. II have to rewatch them from scratch. It was a great show had so many futuristic elements. I still miss the Borg and Picard fights. Much of it is pure creativity, but they sometimes did try to sound "credible". It did not work very well, that's why the technical explanations in Star Trek are often called "Treknobabble". Nevertheless, I do believe that the Star Trek series is without a doubt the most important series in American popular culture, and that it deserves to be studied. I myself, have all the episodes of all the series, and all the movies. There is only one "episode" I do not have: the pilot program with Captain Christopher Pike instead of Captain Kirk, but I have quite a bit of it because that pilot was recycled into to episodes of the series proper.
What I like about Star Trek is that it gives essentially a positive view of the future, not this dark, aggressive gloom and doom that most SciFi depicts. -
@ Bart B. Van Bockstaele
Much of it is pure creativity, but they sometimes did try to sound "credible". It did not work very well, that's why the technical explanations in Star Trek are often called "Treknobabble". Nevertheless, I do believe that the Star Trek series is without a doubt the most important series in American popular culture, and that it deserves to be studied. I myself, have all the episodes of all the series, and all the movies. There is only one "episode" I do not have: the pilot program with Captain Christopher Pike instead of Captain Kirk, but I have quite a bit of it because that pilot was recycled into to episodes of the series proper.
What I like about Star Trek is that it gives essentially a positive view of the future, not this dark, aggressive gloom and doom that most SciFi depicts.
You are so right about the doom and gloom business, Bart! I watched every episode of the original Star Trek with Kirk...and haven't watched a hole lot of any of the spin-offs that have come down the line over the years. Good stuff...that has to make you wonder about our future in space! -
@ Bart B. Van Bockstaele
Much of it is pure creativity, but they sometimes did try to sound "credible". It did not work very well, that's why the technical explanations in Star Trek are often called "Treknobabble". Nevertheless, I do believe that the Star Trek series is without a doubt the most important series in American popular culture, and that it deserves to be studied. I myself, have all the episodes of all the series, and all the movies. There is only one "episode" I do not have: the pilot program with Captain Christopher Pike instead of Captain Kirk, but I have quite a bit of it because that pilot was recycled into to episodes of the series proper.
What I like about Star Trek is that it gives essentially a positive view of the future, not this dark, aggressive gloom and doom that most SciFi depicts. Great explanation, it is true, it was one of the best series and original one unlike other series, which seems to follow one after another. Gene Roddenbery must be awarded a special prize for the creativity. He did get one here. Roddenberry was a recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross for his actions in the U.S. Army Air Corps in the Pacific Theatre of World War II.-
This article is pure plagiarism, plain and simple. The quotes are borrowed and the information is lifted. Even the paragraph and sentence structures are based on those from source articles. This is not news. This is the replication of news that is over two months old.
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@ Boss Cahill
This article is pure plagiarism, plain and simple. The quotes are borrowed and the information is lifted. Even the paragraph and sentence structures are based on those from source articles. This is not news. This is the replication of news that is over two months old. The main article source is quoted in the link, no one says it is the original article. Thanks., -
Another thing,
Who uses a website called paternitytestinglabs.com as a source article for a story about astronomy? Are there not enough sources out there? It's like going to a New Zealand website to get information for an article about Latin dance.
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Good of you to register Boss for the sole purpose of bitch slapping a CJ.
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@ Helena Handbasket
Good of you to register Boss for the sole purpose of bitch slapping a CJ. Thanks Helena, he is new, hopefully he will learn how it works here. The original articles are marked Op Ed. -
As Spock would say "Fascinating"
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Seems to be a day of attack on some of us by these newbies that think they can come in and take over.
Hate to see someone attack you cgull but glad that I am not the only one who has been attacked today.
With the support of others here I guess we will get through it.
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This sounds fascinating, but I'm not buying the "alternate universe" idea for a minute. By definition, an alternate universe is not in any way accessible from this universe, and it has no influence over this universe. If gigantic regions of this universe vanish into an alternate universe now and then, then the other place is not an alternate universe. The other region is just a remote extension of this universe.
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Astronomers and astrophysicists will of course be studying the perimeter of the hole over the next few years. The relative density of matter in the regions around the hole, and any signs of perturbation of galaxies nearby that might be attributed to forces that created the hole, will be at least part of their interest, I suspect. It’s going to be wait-and-see. Hopefully, not too much wait, and lots of see. I’m getting pretty old – I’m afraid I’ll kick off before well-backed theories come out. Alternate U is an interesting idea – but I’m afraid we may simply have been watching too much Star Trek. The explanation may turn out to be more mundane.
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