I think I’ll stick with the eternal mystery theory....
So is this supposed to be proof of there being other versions of human history in alternate universes?
Hmmm, multiple universes, so there must have been more than one Big Bang, eh? A gang bang, as it were.
I repeat. The known universe is approximately 14 + billion years old. Yet we only live for 70. Physics can detect atomic particles that decay in a millionth of a second. The known universe is ‘supposed’ to continue for several TRILLION years. We live 70. It is supposed to end as a black, lifeless, frozen nothing. So exactly WHY do we exist? Some game? It doesn’t make any sense. There is NO purpose to our existence. The time frames are all wrong. Very weird!
Stuff and nonsense!
Here’s the real takeaway from the article: “Four of these looked especially promising, but statistical analyses suggest chance is the best explanation for the features.”
In other words, they might as well study the payouts on slot machines. And, so what if they discover a real anomaly? It would perhaps be consistent with some hypothesis of a multiverse, but it would hardly make the hypothesis provable. And this would probably interfere with finding the real cause of the anomaly if such a thing were possible. The only productive outcome of this nonsense is to provide a storyline for bad science fiction.
Your tax dollars at work.
I read an interesting multiverse theory, that makes a lot of sense. But first, a little background.
Physicists have long proposed that time and space are two axis of the same thing, called time-space. On one axis are the three dimensions of space: length, width, and depth (think of a box), and on the other axis, the fourth dimension, time. If you change space or time, the other also changes.
But another longstanding theory, proposed in 1938, is that there is a second pair of axes that complement time-space, with much the same model, called energy-momentum. In the model, momentum is like space, with three dimensions, and energy is like time, a fourth dimension to momentum.
Then, in a straightforward manner, if you combine time-space with energy-momentum, you end up with an 8 dimensional universe called “momentum-space”. So this is the universe we know. Our universe.
But split the universe in half, with momentum and space on one side and time and energy on the other, and you reach an interesting conclusion. Momentum and space make the “volume” of the universe, and time and energy make the “contents” of the universe.
But that is just one perspective on the eighth dimension universe. If you look at it from a different direction, you see a different universe, or the same universe with different emphasis. As in our point of view, we are very perceptive of time and space, from a different point of view what would seem to matter might be momentum and energy.
From a different point of view, looking at the universe via space, it might seem that the part of the universe that mattered was entirely “organizational”. Length, width and depth.