Planck Space Data Yields Evidence of Universes Beyond Our Own

International Business Times ^ | 5/19/13 | Timur Moon

[GeronL]

multiverse?

maybe different time lines cause different universes?

[Cowboy Bob]

This could really screw up the Miss Universe competition!

[Lancey Howard]

This doesn’t even make sense.
The universe is the universe.

[Lancey Howard]

I prefer pondering multiple realities.

[The Duke]

So, there might just be a Tooth Fairy!

[RobbyS]

This is pure speculation.

[The KG9 Kid]

Great. Thanks. Now I’m going to stay awake in bed tonight looking at the ceiling getting all existential.

[chessplayer]

E=MC2 was just speculation until proven to be correct.

[JRandomFreeper]

The universe is the universe.

And the multiverse is the multiverse.

/johnny

[Born to Conserve]

Can I have a grant? Can I, can I? Please, please, please, please. Gimme a grant! Whaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[onedoug]

It’s M-Theory.

[GeronL]

we are all little tadpoles in the greater pondering

or something

[Little Pig]

Goes nicely with the data that seems to indicate that our current universe had predecessors.

[Lancey Howard]

And there are multiple multiverses!
Marvel Comics was apparently (way) ahead of its time.

[AndyTheBear]

This doesn’t even make sense. The universe is the universe.

As far as I can tell, that was what everyone thought before Georges Lamaitre's theory was widely accepted. It was the Naturalists that were slow to adopt Lamaitre's theory (later called the Big Bang theory), and he was hard pressed to convince people that he wasn't unduly influenced by his belief in God (he was a Jesuit Priest as well as an astrophysicist), since it appears to be a theory of when the universe was created...which would mean that it had not always existed, and thus there must be something beyond it. It seems that shortly after the wide acceptance in the scientific community that the natural universe had a particular point in time that it started, that some people started using the word "cosmos" in a way meant to imply that the only thing beyond the natural universe is just a bigger system of natural universes. Presumably each of these universes had the chance to evolve life. And a tiny chance to evolve pink unicorns...which would be invisible to us, as they are in another "universe"...

[RC one]

Matrix theory?

[calex59]

I have always thought of the Universe as Space and everything in it. Therefore there is only one universe broken up into several(or maybe many)parts. BTW, where did space come from? Scientists love to throw around theories about how the stars and planets(which they call the Universe)were formed, such as the big bang theory, but no one, as far as I know has ever put forth a theory as to how space was formed. It's just there, an unbelievably huge, empty "space" with matter floating in it, matter we call planets and stars and other items such as meteors.

[The KG9 Kid]

Inflation model/ theory

[calex59]

Sorry, but that is about the universe(science deffinition, meaning planets and what not)expanding, not the forming of space. Has space always been there and if not, what was there before? Questions no one can actually answer, and until we invent some way of crossing light years of space in seconds we will never know if the present theories of the Universe are true or not.