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The theories of the universe
The universe is mysterious, and the more science learns about it, the more wonderful it appears. The first reaction to the theory, such as presented here, can be a laugh. But what could be more bizarre than what we already know?
1. All around - "The Matrix»
Many watched the movie, where the hero Keanu Reeves discovers with astonishment that the whole world around us - "The Matrix," that is something like a ghetto, created for people over computer-mind. Of course, it's fantastic, but there were scientists who are ready to accept such an idea seriously.
Nick Bostrom
British philosopher Nick Bostrom has suggested that our whole life - a very difficult game, reminiscent of «The Sims»: development of the industry of video games could lead to the possibility of designing their own models of the world, and everyone will live forever in an isolated virtual reality. If all this goes, there is no guarantee that the world - it's not code written by an unknown programmer whose capabilities considerably beyond human.
Silas Beane, a physicist at the University of Bonn in Germany, looked at it another way: if everything around - a computer image, it means there must be some point beyond which it is possible to distinguish between "pixels", of which everything is made. Such boundary Bean said limit Grayzena-Zatsepin-Kuzmin: Without going into scientific details, we can only say that the German physicist sees it as one of the proofs that we live in an artificial program and taking all new attempts to find the computer on which it is installed.
2. Each of us has a "twin»
Surely you know such a popular adventure story - there is a nightmare world where everyone has the "evil" alter-ego, and every good hero is obliged sooner or later to fight him, and prevail.
This theory is based on the fact that the world around us - an infinite number of combinations of a set of particles, something like the room with the kids and a great designer "Lego": with a certain degree of probability, they can be folded out of the blocks is the same, just a different way. So it is with us - perhaps somewhere came into our exact copy.
However, the probability of the meeting is negligible - the scientists say that the distance from our "double" before we can be from 10 to 1028 m.
3. Can the worlds collide
Outside of the world there may be many more, and nothing precludes the possibility of their collision with our reality.
Anthony Aguirre
California physicist Anthony Aguirre describes it as a huge fall from the sky a mirror in which we see their own fearful person if have time to understand what is happening, and Alex Vilenkin and his colleagues at Tufts University, US, believe that the found traces of such a collision.
The cosmic microwave background - a weak electromagnetic background that pervades all space: all the calculations show that it should be uniform, but there are places where the signal level is higher or lower than normal - Vilenkin believes that this is the residual effects of a collision of two worlds.
4. The Universe - a huge computer
It's one thing to assume that everything around - a video game, and quite another to say that the universe - a huge super computer: such a theory exists, and in accordance with its galaxies, stars and black holes - a huge computer accessories.
Vlatko Vedran
Apologist theory become Oxford professor of quantum informatics Vedran Vlatko he considers basic building blocks from which everything is based, is not a particle of matter and bits - the same unit of the information they work with conventional computers. Each bit can have one of two values: "1" or "0"; "Yes" or "no" - the professor is convinced that even the subatomic particles are composed of trillions of such values, and the interaction of matter occurs when many bits are transmitted each other these values.
The same view is shared by Seth Lloyd, a professor at MIT, he has realized the world's first quantum computer instead of using microarray atoms and electrons. Lloyd suggests that the universe is constantly adjusts the dynamics of their development.
5. We live in a black hole
Of course you know something about black holes - for example, that they have such an attraction and a density that even light can not get out, but it is unlikely you will ever occur to you that we are currently in one of them. < br />
Nikodem Poplawski
But it occurred to scientists from Indiana University - Doctor of Theoretical Physics Nikodem Poplawski, he argues that, hypothetically, the world could absorb a black hole, and as a result we are in a new universe - it is still really do not know what happens to objects , trapped in a giant "funnel».
Physics calculations suggest that the passage of matter through a black hole may be an analogue of the Big Bang, and lead to the formation of another reality. Compression space on the one hand can lead to the expansion of the other, then each black hole - a potential "door" leading to something, yet unexplored.
6. the effect on mankind "bullet time»
Surely many remember the scene in the movie when a bullet flying or falling glass suddenly stops and the camera shows us the subject from all sides. Something similar may be happening to us.
The Big Bang occurred about 14 billion years ago, but the rate of expansion of the universe, contrary to the laws of physics still increased, although the force of gravity, it would seem to be slowing down this process. Why is this happening? Most physicists claims about the "anti-gravity", which actually pushes galaxies apart, but the staff of the two Spanish universities have developed an alternative theory: the universe is not accelerating, but gradually slows down time.
This theory may explain why for us the galaxies are moving faster - light went so long that we do not see their current state, and the distant past. If the Spanish scientists are right, in the future it may be a time when a hypothetical "outside observer" Nowadays almost stops.
1. All around - "The Matrix»
Many watched the movie, where the hero Keanu Reeves discovers with astonishment that the whole world around us - "The Matrix," that is something like a ghetto, created for people over computer-mind. Of course, it's fantastic, but there were scientists who are ready to accept such an idea seriously.
Nick Bostrom
British philosopher Nick Bostrom has suggested that our whole life - a very difficult game, reminiscent of «The Sims»: development of the industry of video games could lead to the possibility of designing their own models of the world, and everyone will live forever in an isolated virtual reality. If all this goes, there is no guarantee that the world - it's not code written by an unknown programmer whose capabilities considerably beyond human.
Silas Beane, a physicist at the University of Bonn in Germany, looked at it another way: if everything around - a computer image, it means there must be some point beyond which it is possible to distinguish between "pixels", of which everything is made. Such boundary Bean said limit Grayzena-Zatsepin-Kuzmin: Without going into scientific details, we can only say that the German physicist sees it as one of the proofs that we live in an artificial program and taking all new attempts to find the computer on which it is installed.
2. Each of us has a "twin»
Surely you know such a popular adventure story - there is a nightmare world where everyone has the "evil" alter-ego, and every good hero is obliged sooner or later to fight him, and prevail.
This theory is based on the fact that the world around us - an infinite number of combinations of a set of particles, something like the room with the kids and a great designer "Lego": with a certain degree of probability, they can be folded out of the blocks is the same, just a different way. So it is with us - perhaps somewhere came into our exact copy.
However, the probability of the meeting is negligible - the scientists say that the distance from our "double" before we can be from 10 to 1028 m.
3. Can the worlds collide
Outside of the world there may be many more, and nothing precludes the possibility of their collision with our reality.
Anthony Aguirre
California physicist Anthony Aguirre describes it as a huge fall from the sky a mirror in which we see their own fearful person if have time to understand what is happening, and Alex Vilenkin and his colleagues at Tufts University, US, believe that the found traces of such a collision.
The cosmic microwave background - a weak electromagnetic background that pervades all space: all the calculations show that it should be uniform, but there are places where the signal level is higher or lower than normal - Vilenkin believes that this is the residual effects of a collision of two worlds.
4. The Universe - a huge computer
It's one thing to assume that everything around - a video game, and quite another to say that the universe - a huge super computer: such a theory exists, and in accordance with its galaxies, stars and black holes - a huge computer accessories.
Vlatko Vedran
Apologist theory become Oxford professor of quantum informatics Vedran Vlatko he considers basic building blocks from which everything is based, is not a particle of matter and bits - the same unit of the information they work with conventional computers. Each bit can have one of two values: "1" or "0"; "Yes" or "no" - the professor is convinced that even the subatomic particles are composed of trillions of such values, and the interaction of matter occurs when many bits are transmitted each other these values.
The same view is shared by Seth Lloyd, a professor at MIT, he has realized the world's first quantum computer instead of using microarray atoms and electrons. Lloyd suggests that the universe is constantly adjusts the dynamics of their development.
5. We live in a black hole
Of course you know something about black holes - for example, that they have such an attraction and a density that even light can not get out, but it is unlikely you will ever occur to you that we are currently in one of them. < br />
Nikodem Poplawski
But it occurred to scientists from Indiana University - Doctor of Theoretical Physics Nikodem Poplawski, he argues that, hypothetically, the world could absorb a black hole, and as a result we are in a new universe - it is still really do not know what happens to objects , trapped in a giant "funnel».
Physics calculations suggest that the passage of matter through a black hole may be an analogue of the Big Bang, and lead to the formation of another reality. Compression space on the one hand can lead to the expansion of the other, then each black hole - a potential "door" leading to something, yet unexplored.
6. the effect on mankind "bullet time»
Surely many remember the scene in the movie when a bullet flying or falling glass suddenly stops and the camera shows us the subject from all sides. Something similar may be happening to us.
The Big Bang occurred about 14 billion years ago, but the rate of expansion of the universe, contrary to the laws of physics still increased, although the force of gravity, it would seem to be slowing down this process. Why is this happening? Most physicists claims about the "anti-gravity", which actually pushes galaxies apart, but the staff of the two Spanish universities have developed an alternative theory: the universe is not accelerating, but gradually slows down time.
This theory may explain why for us the galaxies are moving faster - light went so long that we do not see their current state, and the distant past. If the Spanish scientists are right, in the future it may be a time when a hypothetical "outside observer" Nowadays almost stops.
