Sentences with phrase «separate pocket universes»

Some cosmologists go further and argue that inflation could also happen in other places and at other times, when these other bits of creation break out, undergo their own inflation, and become separate pocket universes.

Not exact matches

«The usual theory of eternal inflation predicts that globally our universe is like an infinite fractal, with a mosaic of different pocket universes, separated by an inflating ocean,» Hawking said in an interview last fall, according to the University of Cambridge.

Some models of the Big Bang theory predict that the inflation that stretched space at the beginning of time also produced an infinite number of «pocket universes,» separated by impassable inflated areas of space.

Each bang would correspond to the birth of a separate «pocket» universe, which might be pictured as an expanding bubble — one of countless bubbles floating around within the «multiverse,» as it's sometimes called.