Friday, October 17, 2008

Bubble Universe

Trying to imagine a bubble universe is a good spiritual exercise:
The bubble universe concept involves creation of universes from the quantum foam of a "parent universe." On very small scales, the foam is frothing due to energy fluctuations. These fluctuations may create tiny bubbles and wormholes. If the energy fluctuation is not very large, a tiny bubble universe may form, experience some expansion like an inflating balloon, and then contract and disappear from existence. However, if the energy fluctuation is greater than a particular critical value, a tiny bubble universe forms from the parent universe, experiences long-term expansion, and allows matter and large-scale galactic structures to form.
These are some of the things that help keep me a daydreamer.

(Photo found here.)

No comments:

Post a Comment