• ESA's Planck telescope yields evidence of universes beyond our own
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[QUOTE] Scientists believe they have found the first evidence of the existence of other universes beyond our own, following analysis of the radiation left behind by the Big Bang. Data gathered by the European Space Agency's Planck spacecraft enabled researchers to map the "cosmic microwave" of background radiation left behind when the universe began 13.8 billion years ago. The findings imply the universe could be just one of billions, or even an infinite number, they say. The map showed anomalies that cosmologists believe could only have been caused by the gravitational pull of other universes outside our own. "These anomalies were caused by other universes pulling on our universe as it formed during the Big Bang," said Laura Mersini-Houghton, of the University of North Carolina. "They are the first hard evidence for the existence of other universes that we have seen." With her colleague Professor Richard Holman of Carnegie Mellon University, Mersini-Houghton published a series of papers from 2005 predicting that pictures from Planck would show our universe to be subject to a "pull" from other universes. "It may be that the statistical anomalies described in this paper are a hint of more profound physical phenomena that are yet to be revealed," they wrote in a recent paper. Planck gathered radiation from the universe when it was just 370,000 years old - and still glowing from the Big Bang. Faint traces of radiation that has travelled across space for 13.8bn years is still detectable, but shows up far stronger in one half of the sky than the other. A large "cold" spot shows where the temperature is below average. Mersini-Houghton will set out her findings at the How The Light Gets In festival in Hay-on-Wye in Herefordshire this week, and at a cosmology conference in Oxford. [/QUOTE] [url]http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/468831/20130519/planck-universe-big-bang-mercini-holman.htm[/url]
Fuck yeah, multiverse! I wonder what the others are like.
Holy shit, this is deep if it's true.
The implications....
I keep trying to comprehend the scale of what exists if there are infinite universes This shits blowing my mind
i'm kind of skeptical, i feel further research is necessary
Here's a cool image for the size of the universe. Linked because fucking huge [url]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Earth's_Location_in_the_Universe_(JPEG).jpg[/url]
[QUOTE=Cone;40725221]i'm kind of skeptical, i feel further research is necessary[/QUOTE] No ones talking to u nerd
[QUOTE=Stormcharger;40725205]I keep trying to comprehend the scale of what exists if there are infinite universes This shits blowing my mind[/QUOTE] Smarked x1
[QUOTE=Mike Tyson;40725246]Here's a cool image for the size of the universe. Linked because fucking huge [url]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Earth's_Location_in_the_Universe_(JPEG).jpg[/url][/QUOTE] I guess if this is true we're gonna have to add one more to that :v:
If this is true, anyone up for forming an interdimensional corporate body to enslave other races?
Just thinking about this is hard. I mean everyone's sort of come to accept there's just this one universe. I'll wait until this is a more widely researched and stuff.
Somewhere out there, there's a universe were everyone is Bill Murray.
[QUOTE=Psychokitten;40725587]Somewhere out there, there's a universe were everyone is Bill Murray.[/QUOTE] Can we try and merge it with the John Malkovich universe? [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6Fuxkinhug[/media] Together they shall mate and create the most hideously awesome hybrid species in all the multiverse.
I hope this is true, I was a bit depressed when Dr. Brian Cox was talking about the heat death of the universe with his friendly, cheery face.
next thing we know NASA invents the Warp Drive and [t]http://1-media-cdn.foolz.us/ffuuka/board/tg/image/1338/59/1338596256118.jpg[/t]
That means even this universe dies i can still be reborn! No more worrying about what comes after death
Chill out guys This is a tiny bit of evidence for a very big claim.
[QUOTE=Mike Tyson;40725246]Here's a cool image for the size of the universe. Linked because fucking huge [url]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Earth's_Location_in_the_Universe_(JPEG).jpg[/url][/QUOTE] It's images like this one that makes it hard for me to believe that there isn't any life out there. Intelligent life is another matter though. Holy shit the Ursa Supercluster must be huge.
My mind
Can we make a device to invade into the dreams of the other us on the other universe?
[QUOTE=shian;40726397]Can we make a device to invade into the dreams of the other us on the other universe?[/QUOTE] Were not talking alternate universes. Were talking universes with different laws of nature.
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;40725856]Chill out guys This is a tiny bit of evidence for a very big claim.[/QUOTE] I'm not even sure I'd call it evidence honestly It's just one possible explanation of inhomogeneities
[QUOTE=ElectricSquid;40725180]Fuck yeah, multiverse! I wonder what the others are like.[/QUOTE] Now I can finally have sex with other versions of myself. ....one day
[QUOTE=Mike Tyson;40725246]Here's a cool image for the size of the universe. Linked because fucking huge [url]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Earth's_Location_in_the_Universe_(JPEG).jpg[/url][/QUOTE] Wow...This is just so mind opening. I mean a penis shaped super cluster? The human mind cannot fathom the other phallic symbols that may be out there.Somewhere something suggestive is waiting to be known.
[QUOTE=Sprockethead;40726442]Were not talking alternate universes. Were talking universes with different laws of nature.[/QUOTE] Not necessarily. Maybe, maybe not. A lot more interesting if it is.
If this is true, WHICH I'M NOT SAYING IT IS. [quote]The findings imply the universe could be just one of billions, or even an infinite number, they say.[/quote] THAT would be fucking incredible if it ends up being true.
I'm more interested in the way other universes might affect ours. If it's true that the gravity of other universes affects our own, what else affects it and how do we affect another?
So there are (probably) multiple universes... and gravity can travel between them?
Lets go universe hopping until we get to the Marvel or DC universe, that'd be the shit.
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