By 'known universe' I mean all that can be ascribed to the original Big Bang, whether observable (eg. stars, planets) or not (parts of the universe from from where no light has reached us yet).
Or in other words, what if the Big Bang phenomenon is but one in a billion that happened (or is happening) with regularity within a larger 'super universe'? My imagination is that these billions (trillions?) of Big Bangs could conceivably form a structure similar to a large galaxy, or planetary system, or one of the many structures we observe at the subatomic and superatomic level.
2006-11-05 18:39:53 · 5 answers · asked by Name not provided 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
You might be interested in M-theory of the universe. It suggests that the universe, ie the big bang that we see is the result of two higher dimensional membranes touching each other. Other membranes may actually touch and produce other kinds of universes but with physics that might be unstable or unusual
2006-11-05 18:54:56 · answer #1 · answered by cehelp 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe it is...
Lets assume that a "point" has only one dimension. It has no length or width but it is just a point. However, in 1D it is a whole universe by itself since it covers the whole dimension alone.
Now lets assume a "line". We always assume that a line goes to -/+ infinity. You can measure the length of the distance between to points on a line. :Just like in the issue with the point, a line on a paper can represent a universe on its own... If we assume the sheet as cosmic universe, then we can say that a line can represent a galaxy.
As we know, the dimension we are living in is a 3D dimension. (Lets say time is not a dimension.) And again we assume that it goes or expands to infinity...
By simply drawing a line on a sheet of paper we create billions of galaxies and universes... Each point on that line is a universe and the line is a universe consisting of Billions of point universes... I believe the universe we are living in is not different than a small point "3D point" on a "4D line" which is just a figure in a "5D room" and so on...
This is my theory.
2006-11-06 03:00:57 · answer #2 · answered by bogus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its mind boggling, isnt it? or maybe we are just some higher being's computer game and suddenly he/she/it gets bored with us and turns us off. then what? we have no way of knowing, as of current technology and we probably won't know for a long, long time, if ever.
2006-11-06 02:56:37 · answer #3 · answered by nemahknatut88 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's possible and things would be as they are.
2006-11-06 10:50:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought we were!
2006-11-06 02:50:35 · answer #5 · answered by Shelley 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋