mgp Journal

3/26/2014

Journal,

          My mind has been racing lately about the universe and its mysteries…More recently my mind has meandered into the thoughts of the possibilities or other universes and how they might be laid out. What if there are an infinite number of universes out there? We can’t be sure what the shape of space-time is, but it would most likely be flat and stretch out indefinitely. Eventually, - if it goes on forever- space-time must start repeating because there is a finite number of ways that particles can be arranged. If our universe extends only as far as light has had a chance to reach,13.7 billion years since the Big Bang, the space beyond that could be considered its own separate universe. In this manner, a huge number of universes could exist next to each other in a giant cosmic-puzzle, if you will. If you go on far enough, would we find other versions of our-selves? Some doing the exact same thing we are? Some slightly different in how they dressed today? Some that may have chosen a whole other life path and career totally?  Imagine how humans might be different in another universe? We might never have discovered electricity or how to store food for times longer than a couple days, and have to hunt and gather all of our food.   It could be called Infinite universes.

3/27/2014

Journal,

          What if universe could arise from a theory called “eternal inflation?” Inflation meaning like a bubble or a balloon. Inflation is the idea that the universe expanded rapidly after the Big Bang. Imagine that you are blowing bubbles. Now take that image and blow it up to cosmic proportions, where the air is space and the bubbles are universes being created. As the bubbles expand, some expand very fast and you get very small bubbles, but in other cases you might get one huge bubble. In this manner, you can see how many different universes can be made. Some of those bubbles fly weird,and you might get the idea that the physics for that bubble is different than for the other ones. We know that this isn’t true for the bubbles, BUT what if this is a reality for the universes being created? The laws of physics and fundamental constants might be different than in ours, making some universes strange places indeed. It could be called Bubble universes.  It could be called Balloon universe.