Leah Crane suggests that gravity may be «leaking» from our own
observable universe into tiny hidden extra dimensions.
Similarly, an A.I. designed to maximize paperclip production might try to convert first the Earth and then increasingly large chunks of
the observable universe into stationery.
Not exact matches
Lem me guess... you've spent an inordinate amount of your life trying to make the
observable facts of the
universe fit
into the fables you were indoctrinated
into as a child.
They accepted the notion that the entire
observable universe — 100 billion galaxies, each stuffed with 100 billion stars, stretching out more than 10 billion light - years in all directions — was once squashed
into a space far smaller than a single electron.
It posits that different parts of space are always ballooning
into separate
universes, so that our
observable universe is just a tiny island in an exponentially growing multiverse.
«Our work implies that some, and perhaps all, black holes have event horizons and that material really does disappear from the
observable universe when pulled
into these exotic objects, as we've expected for decades,» Narayan said.
Eventually this idea grew
into what is now known as the multiverse theory, the notion that our
observable universe is just one of perhaps an infinite number of cosmic domains, each with its own version of the laws of physics.
In fact, the energy available to fall
into the black hole is only that contained within the
observable horizon: the volume of the
universe that the black hole can expect to see over the course of its existence.
In addition to providing enough data to create a deep 3D map showing the distribution and diversity of galaxies in the
observable universe, the information gathered by ZFOURGE is also giving scientists a glimpse
into what our own galaxy was like in its youth, and what it's likely to be billions of years from now.
They are some of the most distant objects discovered in the
observable universe, making them key to understanding the formation of the cosmos we inhabit — especially the early stages when the first stars and galaxies burst
into existence.