Posted on 10/27/2023 7:30:06 AM PDT by Red Badger
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Researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) have developed the most comprehensive view of the universe’s history. The study highlights the transformation of the universe from its inception 13.8 billion years ago to its current state, filled with objects like protons, atoms, and galaxies.
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Astronomers have presented the most detailed view of the universe’s history, suggesting it may have originated from an “instanton” rather than a singularity. This revelation, visualized through two innovative plots, also delves into the mysteries of the universe’s boundaries.
The most comprehensive view of the history of the universe ever created has been produced by researchers at The Australian National University (ANU).
The study also offers new ideas about how our universe may have started.
Lead author Honorary Associate Professor Charley Lineweaver from ANU said he set out wanting to understand where all the objects in the universe came from.
“When the universe began 13.8 billion years ago in a hot big bang, there were no objects like protons, atoms, people, planets, stars, or galaxies. Now the universe is full of such objects,” he said.
“The relatively simple answer to where they came from is that, as the universe cooled, all of these objects condensed out of a hot background.”
Illustrating the Universe’s Evolution
To show this process in the simplest possible way, the researchers made two plots. The first shows the temperature and density of the universe as it expanded and cooled. The second plots the mass and size of all objects in the universe.
The result is the most comprehensive chart ever created of all the objects in the universe.
New View of All Objects in the Universe
Credit: Professor Charley and Vihan Patel (2023) American Journal of Physics
Co-author and former ANU research student Vihan Patel said the project raised some important questions.
“Parts of this plot are ‘forbidden’ – where objects cannot be denser than black holes, or are so small, quantum mechanics blurs the very nature of what it really means to be a singular object.” Mr. Patel said.
Boundaries and Beyond
The researchers also emphasize that the plot boundaries and what potentially lies beyond them remain a major mystery.
“At the smaller end, the place where quantum mechanics and general relativity meet is the smallest possible object – an instanton. This plot suggests the universe may have started as an instanton, which has a specific size and mass, rather than a singularity, which is a hypothetical point of infinite density and temperature,” Mr. Patel said.
“On the larger end, the plot suggests that if there were nothing – a complete vacuum – beyond the observable universe, our universe would be a large, low density black hole. This is a little scary, but we have good reason to believe that’s not the case.”
The study is published in the latest issue of The American Journal of Physics.
Reference:
“All objects and some questions” by Charles H. Lineweaver and Vihan M. Patel, 1 October 2023, The American Journal of Physics.
DOI: 10.1119/5.0150209
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I’m still looking for my extra car key if anyone sees it.
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Here is the underlying theory that supports this.
Is that the Death Star in the upper left corner?
That’s no moon......................
The Universe is like a giant set of Russian Nesting Dolls.................
BTTT a Universe ping!
It’s turtles all the way down!
“This plot suggests the universe may have started as an instanton, which has a specific size and mass, rather than a singularity, which is a hypothetical point of infinite density and temperature,” Mr. Patel said.”
They seem to have missed a key point in their reasoning. The reason that the Big Bang starts from a singularity is not because we know singularities to be real things, but because that’s the only conceivable thing that could contain all of the matter and energy that is currently contained in the universe in a single starting point. If they start instead with a particle with definite mass, then they cannot account for where all the rest of the mass we see in the universe today came from.
And OBTW, those pinprick lights up there they call stars are actually holes in the universe wall where Heaven's glorious light is shining through...
I dunno. I’m just an engineer and not an astrophysicist, but I begin to be reminded of a schoolyard game. The rule-makers set the rules, and then when it doesn’t work, they change them...
So if I’m reading that last graph correctly, are these folks saying everything in the universe arose from an “instanton” that had roughly the mass of a flea (or its energy equivalent) compressed in a volume about twenty orders of magnitude smaller than that of a proton?
Does that chart remind anyone else of the Hot/Crazy Mix?
Either way, they ignore the big questions. Where did the instanton or singularly come from and what caused it to suddenly explode into the universe?
It is not unlike the theory of the evolution of life. We know how complex organic molecules are formed and we know how animals evolve but no one can explain how to make the jump from the most complex organic molecules to the simplest living organism.
Another reason to avoid black holes (almost zero hot; still sufficiently crazy to ruin your life)
That or the F-around/Find-out graph.
Cool pic...analysis above my pay grade
I’m a little bit skeptical when someone implies that it might be possible for the human mind to encompass the universe and to fully understand it.
They haven’t given satisfactory answers to the big questions, and the Big Bang Theory is much better as a sitcom than as the explanation for the universe.
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