The big bang postures a big
question: if it was truly the cataclysm that blasted our cosmos into reality
13.7 billion years ago, what sparked it?
A group of three researchers at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and the University of
Waterloo suggest that the big bang might be the three-dimensional
"mirage" of a collapsing star in a universe deeply different than our
own.
The event horizon of a black
hole — the point of no return for anything that falls in — is a sphere-shaped
surface. In a higher-dimensional cosmos, a black hole might have a
three-dimensional event horizon, which could seed a whole new universe as it
forms.
So technically it might be
the time to bid the Big Bang bye-bye. Cosmologists have proposed that the
Universe formed from the wreckages expelled when a four-dimensional star
collapsed into a black hole — a situation that would help to clarify why the
cosmos appears to be so uniform in all directions.
You can learn more about
their amazing theory here and watch the video below for more information:
