Phrases with «pocket universe»

A "pocket universe" refers to a small and separate world or reality that exists within a larger universe. Just like how you might keep small things in your pocket, a pocket universe is a tiny version of a larger universe that can be independent and have its own rules and inhabitants. Full definition

Sentences with «pocket universe»

  • In Carroll and Chen's theory, fluctuations in the dark - energy background function as seeds that trigger new rounds of inflation, creating a crop of pocket universes from empty space. (discovermagazine.com)
  • Many auteur directors create films that seem to exist in pocket universes as self - contained, circumscribed and minutely thought - through as the virtual - reality environment of a computer game or the fantasy setting of a paperback trilogy. (bfi.org.uk)
  • «Given a megaverse, endlessly filled with pocket universes,» he writes, «the Anthropic Principle is an effective tool to weed out and eliminate most of them as candidates for our universe.» (scientificamerican.com)
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