The concept of a parallel universe is well-trodden territory in science fiction (See: The CW’s Flash for a recent example), but scientists might’ve just spotted some legitimate proof of the multiverse — and it looks like it’s leaking into ours.
As Inverse reports, the Planck telescope has been mapping the cosmic microwave background (CMB) leftover from the early days of the universe. Turns out, it might’ve found something of cosmic importance. Caltech cosmologist Ranga-Ram Chary compared the CMB map with a shot of the night sky captured by the Planck telescope. The effort spotted a patch of light 4,500 times brighter than it should be.
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Quick someone call Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, they have experience with other dimensions, maybe they can stop this other universe from taking a leak on us.Maybe they can take Michelle Bigbootie and the skinny guy back with them, too.
Maybe they can take Michelle Bigbootie and the skinny guy back with them, too.It's Big Bootay, BIG BOOOTAAAY !
It's Big Bootay, BIG BOOOTAAAY !:silly:
If Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are considered as leaders in the alternative universe, that would explain a lot.
If Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are considered as leaders in the alternative universe, that would explain a lot.
Yep. Open those portals CERN. Do you know what the key to the bottomless pit is AbaraXas? Does anyone know?
Hey! I've got a really good idea. Let's hit the God particle with everything we've got and see if we can break it. What's the harm?
That's actually not funny..
That actually wasn't meant to be funny. Too few truly comprehend what you posted.Well, I got it.
... the CME could be a game-ender.
There is probably a good reason parents tell their kids to get out of the road. Or you could duck. (Ha! Missed me.)Oh, look! Twins! they have the cutest little eyes, all eight of them...
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Yep. Open those portals CERN. Do you know what the key to the bottomless pit is AbaraXas? Does anyone know?
Hey! I've got a really good idea. Let's hit the God particle with everything we've got and see if we can break it. What's the harm?
That actually wasn't meant to be funny. Too few truly comprehend what you posted.
Proof of our universe leaking into theirs is the missing sock in the dryer.
@Smokin Joe @Free Vulcan
And here I always thought that missing sock was something I had to give up for lint. :silly:
Proof of our universe leaking into theirs is the missing sock in the dryer.I wonder how many philanderers are going to blame the stray articles of women's underthings found in the odd spot in the vehicle on leakage from a parallel universe now that the topic has been breached?
@Smokin Joe @Free VulcanThat's so bad it's good. Touche!
And here I always thought that missing sock was something I had to give up for lint. :silly:
Well, I got it.
I was nearly kicked out of a college physics class for asking (after class was over) about the velocity of gravity. (If E=mc^2, then the mass of a star changes as it releases energy, so the gravitational force exerted by the star would be reduced as well. How long would it take for that change to be felt at a distant point in space? the answer was "It would be instantaneous", to which I mused "But that would make gravity faster than light." The reply: "Bring this up again and I will flunk you, no matter what grade you have." I had a high B, and needed to maintain GPA to keep my NSF grant going...
Relatively small peturbations in the fabric of a star might not cause explosion, but the CME could be a game-ender.
Changes in gravity cannot propagate faster than light. If they could, then gravitational waves could be used for superluminal communication, which would, I believe, raise a number of ugly paradoxes.
Also, while light moves through space, it does so in much the way that other physical bodies do; space is not a "medium" for light the way, for example, that air or water are a medium for sound.
Yes, gravity could be used to communicate faster than light if we could find a way to do so.
That was actually part of the story to Interstellar. How Cooper could communicate with Murph via the manipulation of gravity while he was in the middle of the black hole.
Changes in gravity cannot propagate faster than light. If they could, then gravitational waves could be used for superluminal communication, which would, I believe, raise a number of ugly paradoxes.Now you're getting back to Huygens v. Newton: Is light composed of corpuscles (photons) or is it a waveform?
Also, while light moves through space, it does so in much the way that other physical bodies do; space is not a "medium" for light the way, for example, that air or water are a medium for sound.
Gravitational changes cannot propagate faster than light. The speed of light is a structural component of the space time continuum.
Gravitational changes cannot propagate faster than light. The speed of light is a structural component of the space time continuum.@HonestJohn
Spin systems, with their finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces, are ideal for studying the dynamics of entangled states. For the purpose of teleportation and other quantum protocols, maximally entangled channels provide quantum information transfer with very high fidelity; hence it is imperative that one should quantify the entanglement of a particular system or channel
Now you're getting back to Huygens v. Newton: Is light composed of corpuscles (photons) or is it a waveform?
The ability to focus the gravity of a distant star on a ship and pull it through space....etc.
Or a black hole. The rate they are finding brown dwarfs, etc. space is probably so littered with free range objects you would have to leave space to go through it.They will get it figured out. They've just been busy looking at the shiny things.
They will get it figured out. They've just been busy looking at the shiny things.
I looked it up. You are right.
Yes, gravity could be used to communicate faster than light if we could find a way to do so.
That was actually part of the story to Interstellar. How Cooper could communicate with Murph via the manipulation of gravity while he was in the middle of the black hole.
Excellent post. The concept of this sort of communication first came to my own awareness in reading Ursula K Leguin's SF writing. Her "Ecumenical" novels (Left Hand of Darkness, Word for World is Forest, The Wind's Twelve Quarters" et al) propose that there is a sub-ether in the fabric of space which could allow one to communicate across space over great distances instantaneously, but not to transport material objects faster-than light.Also James Blish (Cities in Flight) had Dirac Transmitters...First used in his story Beep from 1954.
SF author Gene Wolfe also postulates that strange things can happen to spacetime when massive acceleration or massive energy are applied to small regions using very precise mirrors (taking the concept of laser amplification into the trans-dimensional realm) in his Urth of the New Sun novels (aka The Severian Series). His novels are also full of conservative themes, the latter series being very analogous to the life of Christ in some interpretations.
Also James Blish (Cities in Flight) had Dirac Transmitters...First used in his story Beep from 1954.
Source: (Lots more fun stuff there, too)
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=844 (http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=844)
Kewl!! Thanks!! And while we're all on the topic of speculative fiction and going beyond our universe, there is the classic by Azimov, "The Gods Themselves," in which a "pump" is created that brings "free" energy into our universe from another but which has hidden dangers that are not detectable on our side.Asimov was great! I got to hear him speak in Virginia when I was in college. A brilliant man and a prolific writer (and, with Heinlein, Bradbury, Verne, Wells, and a couple of others, the folks who really got me into science fiction and science). Being a space age brat (Born not long before Sputnik, and following the development of the Space Program as we grew up) didn't hurt.
I'm not sure I like the idea of another universe taking a leak on our universe.
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It is ok. It is golden.
In our universe, perhaps. But who knows about the parallel ones? I, for one, am apprehensive about meeting the denizens of the "greenish blue" universe.
What is the "mysterious lying object" in the large hadron collider"???
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Even aliens.