Who's (the new universe's) the daddy?

El_Machinae · Apr 12, 2006

If humans can create a Big Bang (and a new universe) - will we be God? Maybe not. But it can put all you "heat death fatalists" in your place!

Working with Prof. Edward Farhi and others, Guth has explored the question of whether it is in principle possible to ignite inflation in a hypothetical laboratory, thereby creating a new universe. The answer is a definite maybe. They showed that it cannot be done classically, but with quantum tunneling it might be theoretically possible. The new universe, if it can be created, would not endanger our own universe. Instead it would slip through a wormhole and rapidly disconnect completely.

http://web.mit.edu/physics/facultyandstaff/faculty/alan_guth.html

Fox Mccloud · Apr 12, 2006

interesting. Maybe that's how we got our universe.

Mise · Apr 12, 2006

The new universe, if it can be created, would not endanger our own universe. Instead it would slip through a wormhole and rapidly disconnect completely.

So it has absolutely no impact whatsoever on our universe...? Meh.

Perfection · Apr 12, 2006

Mise said:
So it has absolutely no impact whatsoever on our universe...? Meh.

Indeed, the question is can we transfer infromation to this new universe (provided we can make it, which I'm highly skeptical of)? If we can't then heat death is still inevitable.

Fox Mccloud · Apr 12, 2006

El_Machinae said:
If humans can create a Big Bang (and a new universe) - will we be God?

We would be God only if we could create planets, life, and be able to create the whole new universe any way we want. But according to the article, it sounds like all contact with it would immediatly be lost:

The Article said:
Instead it would slip through a wormhole and rapidly disconnect completely.

Maybe it would be possible to make a portal to it, though.

Tank_Guy#3 · Apr 12, 2006

[Einstein's Accent] This is very intriguing...[End Accent]

Sidhe · Apr 12, 2006

You're all wrong the big bang was and can only created by branes meeting, the rest is just superfluous non mainstream blather

And anyway the Big bang if you follow it right comes from nothing, not a universe already existant.

Tycoon101 · Apr 12, 2006

I disagree, we cannot be God for that would mean that we are incorporeal, existing outside of time, all powerful... God would destroy us before we could do this. And yes, I am a God-Fearing Christian, and you can take that to the bank.

No, we will not be able to create a Big Bang in the likes of that which happened, it is an impossibility.

El_Machinae · Apr 12, 2006

Maybe it would be possible to make a portal to it, though.

That's what I'm thinking. Or at least some type of information transfer. It rapidly diminishes - which means that maybe the diminishment can be slowed.

As well, Perfection and I have 300 billion years to work on this. Physics is so expersive. The supercollider and ITER cost billions. To test String Theory will require (I've heard) a supercollider as big as our solar system ...

CIVPhilzilla · Apr 12, 2006

So maybe someone in another universe created ours.

tombeef · Apr 12, 2006

CIVPhilzilla said:
So maybe someone in another universe created ours.

And maybe we don't exist. And maybe there are multiple universes. Who knows anything, really?

Who's (the new universe's) the daddy?

El_Machinae

Colour vision since 2018

Fox Mccloud

Deity

Mise

isle of lucy

Perfection

The Great Head.

Fox Mccloud

Deity

Tank_Guy#3

Lion of Lehistan

Sidhe

Deity

Tycoon101

Loves being STRONG

El_Machinae

Colour vision since 2018

CIVPhilzilla

Reagan Republican

tombeef

King

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