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  • Countless Alternative Worlds May Actually Have Existed at the Big Bang

    From the page: "How did the Universe begin is one of the most profound questions of all. But to Stephen Hawking, who has perhaps come closer than anyone to answering it, the question doesn't in fact even exist. Hawking, who holds Newton's Lucasian Chair at the University of... more

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  • Reviewed by thegunshow01 on May 11 2009, 5:37pm

    They seem to come up with so many different ways the universe began. Who's right?

  • Reviewed by eccentrix on May 06 2009, 3:59pm

    From the page: ""Quantum mechanics forbids a single history," says Hertog. "Quantum mechanics forbids a single history." "

  • Rated by Saphyn on May 02 2009, 3:47pm

    I already thumbs upped this and I stumbled it? Weird.

  • Rated by leblebi on May 02 2009, 10:15am

    It is funny how this area is open to so much bullshit.

  • Rated by JIR on Nov 14 2008, 9:16am

    From the page: "How did the Universe begin is one of the most profound questions of all. But to Stephen Hawking, who has perhaps come closer than anyone to answering it, the question doesn't in fact even exist. Hawking, who holds Newton's Lucasian Chair at the University of Cambridge, UK, and his colleague Thomas Hertog of the European Laboratory for Particle Physics at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, are about to publish a paper claiming that the Universe had no unique beginning. Instead, they argue, it emerged out of a profusion of beginnings, the vast majority withered away without leaving any real imprint on the Universe we know today. Only a tiny fraction of them blended to make the current cosmos, Hawking and Hertog claim. According to their article in Nature: He and Hawking call their theory 'top-down' cosmology, because instead of looking for some fundamental set of initial physical laws under which our Universe unfolded, it starts 'at the top', with what we see today, and works backwards to see what the initial set of possibilities might have been. In effect, says Hertog, the present 'selects' the past. Within just a few seconds after the Big Bang, a single history had already come to dominate the Universe, he explains. So from the 'classical' viewpoint of big objects such as stars and galaxies, things happened only one way after that point. Other 'histories', say, one in which the Earth formed only 4,000 years ago, have made no significant contribution to this cosmic evolution. But in the first instants of the Big Bang, there existed a superposition of ever more different versions of the Universe, instead of a unique history. And most crucially, Hertog says that 'our current Universe has features frozen in from this early quantum mixture'." They'll be bringing in God soon?

  • Rated by javamanjoe on Apr 16 2008, 7:08pm

    COUNTLESS ALTERNATIVE WORLDS. Thanks 'kavisho9'. How did the Universe begin is one of the most profound questions of all. But to Stephen Hawking, who has perhaps come closer than anyone to answering it, the question doesn't in fact even exist.

  • Rated by Seanachi on Apr 12 2008, 4:57pm

    Fascinating concept. thanks to Mark-the-lark

  • Rated by chrysallis on Feb 14 2008, 7:46pm

    Countless Alternative Worlds May Actually Have Existed at the Big Bang How did the Universe begin is one of the most profound questions of all. But to Stephen Hawking, who has perhaps come closer than anyone to answering it, the question doesn't in fact even exist. He (Thomas Hertog) and Hawking call their theory 'top-down' cosmology, because instead of looking for some fundamental set of initial physical laws under which our Universe unfolded, it starts 'at the top', with what we see today, and works backwards to see what the initial set of possibilities might have been. In effect, says Hertog, the present 'selects' the past...