In theories of eternal inflation, the inflationary phase of the universe's expansion lasts forever in at least some regions of the universe. Because these regions expand exponentially rapidly, most of the volume of the universe at any given time is inflating. All models of eternal inflation produce an infinite multiverse, typically a fractal.
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Alan Guth and Andrei Linde just said at the press conference that the inflaton field decays randomly and non-uniformly, and that as it decays, there remain regions of the universe where it hasn't decayed and which continue inflating. Linde said "this inflation must go on forever".
Now scientists at Cern in Switzerland believe they might find miniature black holes which would reveal the existence of a parallel universe.
And if the holes are found at a certain energy, it could prove the controversial theory of ‘rainbow gravity’ which suggests that the universe stretches back into time infinitely with no singular point where it started, and no Big Bang.
The theory was postulated to reconcile Einstein’s theory of general relativity – which deals with very large objects, and quantum mechanics – which looks at the tiniest building blocks of the universe. It takes its name from a suggestion that gravity's effect on the cosmos is felt differently by varying wavelengths of light.
The huge amounts of energy needed to make ‘rainbow gravity’ would mean that the early universe was very different. One result would be that if you retrace time backward, the universe gets denser, approaching an infinite density but never quite reaching it.
The effect of rainbow gravity is small for objects like the Earth but it is significant and measurable for black holes. It could be detected by the Large Hadron Collider if it picks up or creates black holes within the accelerator.
“We have calculated the energy at which we expect to detect these mini black holes in gravity's rainbow [a new theory]. If we do detect mini black holes at this energy, then we will know that both gravity's rainbow and extra dimensions are correct, Dr Mir Faizal told Phys.org.
wiping out the "let there be light" moment goes a long way to killing god, right?
Re: Black holes might be intelligent
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 1:02 pm
by Ray
I do recall hearing about it but yeah, good post
Re: Black holes might be intelligent
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 4:31 pm
by Ray
james wrote:neil degrasse tyson fucking sucks
He does. Or at least anything interesting he has to say is for free. I got cajoled into buying a ticket to see him do a "lecture" at Jones Hall in downtown Houston a couple of weeks ago with a few friends because I figured I had nothing better to do that night. None of us knew what it was about, I mean it COST MONEY so it's probably an okay time. Wrong. The motherfucker sets up a presentation based solely on shit he likes to point out in dumb movies. THE WHOLE THING. He practically read his fucking Twitter timeline, pandered for giggles and woo'ing from the peon audience and barely elaborated on anything scientific before going on to the next shitty movie, or even commercials, and pointing out something "scientific" and asinine they got wrong or right. It was the ultimate hosing. i am so ashamed of myself. Fuck him.
Re: Black holes might be intelligent
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 4:44 pm
by Necrometer
that sounds dreadful
Re: Black holes might be intelligent
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 4:46 pm
by Ray
Of course I was skeptical before going, and basically was everything I feared short of him coming out on stage to a smoke machine and bro's jumping up fist pumping going HOO HOO HOO
Re: Black holes might be intelligent
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 4:53 pm
by Ray
As if I couldn't be any more convinced of his status as a shitty pop icon, some girl I hadn't seen in years who was known as the TOWN BIKE back in the day recognized me leaving, and she was wearing some shitty shiny blue dress like she was going to a ball. She approached me and said hi and I asked her what she thought and she squawked "It was greeaaat" and I walked off to lead her away from recognizing anyone else with me.
Then I left for Big Bend the night after and camped the next 5 days. Alright I'm done. Fuck...
I'm going to restate my take on this one, which I've decided to name the "kissing cousins" hypothesis. because that 1% figure for abiogenesis is a massive overestimation and the cost of deeeeeep space travel is so great, the only exo-life we'll ever run into will share a common ancestor with us.
harnessing power on the scale of a star and beyond is so incredibly silly and seems cooked up by physics shut-ins who have read too much sci-fi (or maybe not enough?). fun to think about, but irritating when it's the basis of people's earnest approximations of what's cooking out there...
that fucking bullshit
