Cosmic Rebirth
Author: Ron Cowen
Date Written: 18/12/2010 (?)
The big bang as we know it happened about 13.7 million years ago, however according to a new study the universe could be much older than that, eons older. This is because it could be only the latest part of a series of multiple big bangs. This theory by a theoretical physicist Roger Penrose of the University of Oxford in England and Vahe Gurzadyan of the Yerevan Physics Institute and Yerevan State University in Armenia. It is based on their findings of round patter in the microwave background of space. These circles show where the temperature is slightly different from the rest of the space. This supports the new theory as an inflatable universe shown in currently generally accepted theories could hardly create them and would most likely erase them. Those circles should be a slight look back at the big bangs that came before the most recent one. They found similar circular patterns with two different machines which lowers the possibility of them being wrong or being fooled by a faulty machine. The results of this study are not necessarily perfectly reliable but currently a new map of the cosmic microwave background is in the works. This could tell us more about how reliable this theory really is.
I personally find this very interesting. The possibility of us being wrong about the big bang is possible. As history has proven, we are often wrong. The question is: What came before the first big bang of the series?
I personally find this very interesting. The possibility of us being wrong about the big bang is possible. As history has proven, we are often wrong. The question is: What came before the first big bang of the series?
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