Original Post Date: October 24, 2013
You gotta love this opening line: "Decades of confounding experiments
have physicists considering a startling possibility: The universe might
not make sense." Ha-ha! Anyway, I just read a highly entertaining 4-page
article on Scientific America, a few minutes ago.
A lot of this was fueled by the recent results at the Large Hadron
Collider in Europe. You know, back when the Higgs Bozo, oops, I mean
Higgs boson entered the spotlight. Here is a quote from the page: "In
order for the Higgs boson to make sense with the mass it was determined
to have, the LHC needed to find a swarm of other particles, too. None
turned up." They also went on to say: "Yet a few constants (including
the mass of the Higgs boson) are exponentially different from what these
trusted laws indicate they should be, in ways that would rule out any
chance of life, unless the universe is shaped by inexplicable
fine-tunings and cancellations."
Then there comes the multiverse theory, string theory, and so on. If
physicists can't get it together, we can at least start trying to make
the math work for other possibilities, right? None of this takes very
much education, actually, as anybody with a half-lit imagination can
ponder over a bubble-verse or whatever. That would be sort of like each
universe is its on bubble and there are an infinite amount of them.
Sometimes they bump into each other and burst, then things go "bang" and
new bubbles form. Yeah, you get the idea, right?
Actually, I would have more fun looking at 'fractal art' as opposed to
listening to a bunch of overly paid theoretical physicists come up with
stuff any 8-year-old kid can dream up. We can't even figure out our own
universe, so who cares? Sort of like all the chatter about going to planet Mars. We haven't even fully explored nor figured out certain
phenomena from our own oceans yet. Yeah, lets basically bypass the Moon,
too, and head straight to Mars with our robotic probes... Blah, blah...
Anyway, if you are interested in reading more about this entertaining
subject, go here: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-physics-complications-lend-support-to-multiverse-hypothesis/
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