Our universe may exist inside a black hole. This may sound strange, but it could actually be the best explanation of how the universe began, and what we observe today. It's a theory that has been explored over the past few decades by a small group of physicists including myself.
Successful as it is, there are notable unsolved questions with the standard big bang theory, which suggests that the universe began as a seemingly impossible "singularity," an infinitely small point containing an infinitely high concentration of matter, expanding in size to what we observe today. The theory of inflation, a super-fast expansion of space proposed in recent decades, fills in many important details, such as why slight lumps in the concentration of matter in the early universe coalesced into large celestial bodies such as galaxies and clusters of galaxies.
That was all very hard to understand to me. The official fpot theory of the universe is that eventually every star will burn all its fuel and experience heat death. They will still contain large amounts of mass and will still generate a gravitational field. Over a period of roughly eleventy billion years, all of the dead stars in the universe will pull themselves together and create the singularity formally known as the Big Bang. After another period of eleventy billion years this singularity will explode (or something) and the Big Bang will happen all over again. Dark matter and the dark energy it creates can simply be explained as a floating mass of alternate forum accounts created by Door.
It always existed. I know something 'always existing' is a bit of a mind boggle but that's only because the human brain relies so much on time to function properly. Just imagine something always existing and ask yourself, why is it impossible?
Yeah but that expansion is going to have to slow down eventually. Plus heat death will not occur for a very long time. I can't really google a good estimate but the time it takes for a black hole to dissipate is 10 with a hundred zeroes after it years, so much longer than that I guess?
Oh and just in case anyone thinks I am trying to pretend I know what I am talking about, I'll say what I truly believe about the inner-workings of the universe and trying to understand it. If you plonked an ant in front of a Picasso painting and asked the ant to explain the painting to you, the ant would be in the same boat that we are in trying to unlock the universe's secrets.
those morgan freeman doco's actually had some really awesome theories on the universe.
i particularly liked the black hole/white hole scenario where we have 2 universes existing within "microns" of each other (imagine 2 sheets pulled taut one held above the other an inch away) then drop a rock in a couple of places on the top sheet and let those create "contact points" if the sheets represent the 2 universes (the matter and antimatter universes) we get transitions of matter between the 2 at these points via black holes and white holes.
few other theories floating around out there that they discussed and were pretty cool.
This may sound strange, but it could actually be the best explanation of how the universe began
Ok most likely not going to read this article, but is it just another pass-the-buck theory? Like those people that say "Humans were put here by aliens". Yeah, great, thanks for theorizing ... now tell us how the aliens came to exist.
It always existed. I know something 'always existing' is a bit of a mind boggle but that's only because the human brain relies so much on time to function properly. Just imagine something always existing and ask yourself, why is it impossible?
Why did something always exist ? And something is vague. Something could have been "god".
ps. Any proof ?
Your something always existed theory sounds shit.
Gargh, you guys, The Doctor created a time loop and the universe exists because it had to exist for him to initially make it exist. Also, a turtle, which carries it on its back, and is going to JUDGE YOU, and you should give its robed magic men who have been wrong about everything money and power. Do you think that the universe experiences anxiety? Why wouldn't a rock?
^ While that was my reaction, I have to now devil's advocate, and point out that in all fairness, it is a hypothesis potentially at least based in some half decent physics.
there was nothing 'before' the big bang, because time did not exist before the big bang. When all mass and energy is at a single point, there is no spacetime, and therefore no time.
lol poor Obes. Something that has always existed is your teenage angst. It has now expanded into Obes angst.
Like orbitor said the big bang wasn't a singularity floating in empty space and then exploding into it. When it exploded it created space. When I first heard that my mind was blown a little bit.
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