Scientists may have just discovered a parallel universe leaking into ours

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An interesting article which will no doubt encourage some even more interesting comments from the usual suspects here in the OT forum.
The existence of multiple universes -- a multiverse -- has been considered scientifically plausible. If all these universes emerged from the same Big Bang, then they're likely sitting together like ducks in a row, vibrating. If these universes touch one another, the thinking goes, the resulting collision would leave some sort of trace evidence. Which brings us to the Planck telescope's map of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) -- leftover light from the violent, swirling beginnings of the early universe. In a new paper, Caltech cosmologist Ranga-Ram Chary compared the CMB with a picture of the entire night sky also taken by the Planck telescope, and found a weird patch of bright light that could be the result of universes colliding.

The data suggests that the other universe rubbing up against ours would look very different than anything we're used to and would have hit our universe just a few hundred thousand years after the Big Bang.

https://www.inverse.com/article/7403...king-into-ours
  • Profile picture of the author butters
    I hope that billionaire me can send a few 100 mil my way! It would be cool if true and people would go bonkers over it if true.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kay King
    vibrating ducks and leaky universes...don't you just love science?
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    I noticed Claude posting twice as many comments.
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  • Profile picture of the author whateverpedia
    After posting I suddenly twigged on to the irony of starting a thread about parallel universes in the parallel universe that is the OT forum.
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      Originally Posted by whateverpedia View Post

      After posting I suddenly twigged on to the irony of starting a thread about parallel universes in the parallel universe that is the OT forum.
      I also posted in your other universe thread.
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      • Profile picture of the author whateverpedia
        Originally Posted by yukon View Post

        I also posted in your other universe thread.
        I saw all of them.
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        • Profile picture of the author tagiscom
          Just as long as they don't mess about with subspace. A parallel universe with nothing in it, so we can push the speed without any issues, is too good to mess up!

          Besides, scrapping Star Trek, and Stargate, would be sacrilegious.

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  • too many parallel universes, an' you got a denial of service attack on infinity, but yeh cld use a vibratin' dick right now 'cos they are a mellowin' influence on the planet

    love 'em comin' uptya so u can feed 'em, same as squirrels

    only squirrels are more kinda mosey

    i fkn really love animals

    furry is my favo but I held a few snakes, an' they are weird

    animals really bug me are sharks

    so overrated imho, yet where are the sharkskin sofas?

    This is the missin' link in hooman reasonin'.
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    • Profile picture of the author Doran Peck
      Originally Posted by Princess Balestra View Post

      too many parallel universes, an' you got a denial of service attack on infinity, but yeh cld use a vibratin' dick right now 'cos they are a mellowin' influence on the planet

      love 'em comin' uptya so u can feed 'em, same as squirrels

      only squirrels are more kinda mosey

      i fkn really love animals

      furry is my favo but I held a few snakes, an' they are weird

      animals really bug me are sharks

      so overrated imho, yet where are the sharkskin sofas?

      This is the missin' link in hooman reasonin'.


      ..this is just...so badass
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      • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
        The part that meant anything was "glow out in deep space". Literally everything else was "wouldn't it be amazing if..." or "It's possible to imagine it as..."

        It's a trick of the mind when reading these articles, that something was said as evidence, or even theory.

        Read the whole thing, and try to find one statement of fact.
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        • Profile picture of the author whateverpedia
          Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

          The part that meant anything was "glow out in deep space". Literally everything else was "wouldn't it be amazing if..." or "It's possible to imagine it as..."

          It's a trick of the mind when reading these articles, that something was said as evidence, or even theory.

          Read the whole thing, and try to find one statement of fact.
          I never claimed it was factual or even possible. I said it was an interesting article that would no doubt elicit some interesting comments, such as the one you posted.
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          • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
            Originally Posted by whateverpedia View Post

            I never claimed it was factual or even possible. I said it was an interesting article that would no doubt elicit some interesting comments, such as the one you posted.

            I know. I didn't mean to imply anything toward you.....

            You bring out my tender side.....apparently.

            Wait! You thought my post was interesting?

            Awwww Shucks.
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            • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
              Originally Posted by Princess Balestra View Post

              Mebbe aliens gonna drown our patch in pee.

              That's what I'd do if I had wibblies stickin' outta my head
              Do they pee out of those things?
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            • Profile picture of the author whateverpedia
              Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

              You bring out my tender side.....apparently.
              Don't tell Kurt - he thinks he's your favourite. We don't want him getting jealous.
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              • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
                Originally Posted by whateverpedia View Post

                Don't tell Kurt - he thinks he's your favourite. We don't want him getting jealous.

                I love you all equally, but in different ways.....

                You are my children. I created you all out of my imagination.

                Except Kurt. I created him out of a panic attack.
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    Scrapping Star Trek would be impossible to describe, so sacrilegious is just the starting point to getting even worse. As for Star Gate, I gave up watching it BUT I do love Doctor Who, and I was born the same the show first aired (1963 for those who care and those who don't).
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    • Profile picture of the author tagiscom
      Originally Posted by laurencewins View Post

      Scrapping Star Trek would be impossible to describe, so sacrilegious is just the starting point to getting even worse. As for Star Gate, I gave up watching it BUT I do love Doctor Who, and I was born the same the show first aired (1963 for those who care and those who don't).
      WHAT!!! Ok, l am getting through Stargate Atlantis as we speak, up to the one where Calson gets the chop!

      Can't remember who replaces him, only watched it once, and it was hard to keep up since the a**** station help changing the times and days it was on!

      There is good evidence, to show that when particles exceed light speed, they go into subspace before enertia takes over and it reappears into normal space again.

      Yeah, l know infinite mass, blah, blah, but even Hawking showed that particles thrown out by Black holes, do exceed the visible limit.

      Some particles near the event horizon can be spit out at over visible limit speeds!


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  • Way our universe is goin', you gotta ask about the nature of the leak.

    Mebbe aliens gonna drown our patch in pee.

    That's what I'd do if I had wibblies stickin' outta my head an' some kinda leathery carapace.

    Yeh, use Sucker Cosmos as a kinda recyc dump an' save on buildin' spaceships, then siphon off alla the pee into some other universe.

    Space mop bots an' detergent drones gonna clean up, an' — presto — aliens got a whole noo universe for nuthin' while they kick back drinkin' Dr Pepper.

    It is a perfect plan. Do not tell the aliens.
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    • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
      Originally Posted by Princess Balestra View Post

      Way our universe is goin', you gotta ask about the nature of the leak.

      Mebbe aliens gonna drown our patch in pee.

      That's what I'd do if I had wibblies stickin' outta my head an' some kinda leathery carapace.

      Yeh, use Sucker Cosmos as a kinda recyc dump an' save on buildin' spaceships, then siphon off alla the pee into some other universe.

      Space mop bots an' detergent drones gonna clean up, an' -- presto -- aliens got a whole noo universe for nuthin' while they kick back drinkin' Dr Pepper.

      It is a perfect plan. Do not tell the aliens.

      I think your posts may be a door to a parallel universe. Well, almost parallel.
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      • Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

        I think your posts may be a door to a parallel universe. Well, almost parallel.
        I like to think of them as mistimin' trapeze artists who form brief, yet interestin', shapes in the air before they splat to earth.
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  • Profile picture of the author bojan92
    There are many theories about parallel universes and do we live in one , which is the the one that is real. Do we live or do we exist in different form in other universes? When you think about it we are where we are based on choices. Lets say if any one of you decided to enroll a different school when he was young he wouldn't even be reading this post. Endless possibilities and endless combinations.
    But i would believe it is more likely for us to be visited from an alien life form than this to happen , because maybe the title sounds good but it will bring chaos.
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