Saturday, June 28, 2014

Higgs Boson Theorist Claims Universe Shouldn't Exist



According to the Big Bang model, the universe expanded from an extremely dense and hot state and continues to expand today. The graphic scheme above is an artist's concept illustrating the expansion of a portion of a flat universe. (Image Source: Wikipedia.org )

By Tia Ghose, LiveScience.com

The universe shouldn't exist — at least according to a new theory.

Modeling of conditions soon after the Big Bang suggests the universe should have collapsed just microseconds after its explosive birth, the new study suggests.

"During the early universe, we expected cosmic inflation — this is a rapid expansion of the universe right after the Big Bang," said study co-author Robert Hogan, a doctoral candidate in physics at King's College in London. "This expansion causes lots of stuff to shake around, and if we shake it too much, we could go into this new energy space, which could cause the universe to collapse." 

Physicists draw that conclusion from a model that accounts for the properties of the newly discovered Higgs boson particle, which is thought to explain how other particles get their mass. Faint traces of gravitational waves formed at the universe's origin also inform the conclusion.

Of course, there must be something missing from these calculations. 

"We are here talking about it," Hogan told LiveScience. "That means we have to extend our theories to explain why this didn't happen."

More - Link >>> http://www.nbcnews.com/science/weird-science/say-what-higgs-boson-theorist-claims-universe-shouldnt-exist-n138911

Sources: LiveScience.com , NBC News.

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Gravity Waves Found: Strong Evidence of Big Bang Theory  (2014 March 17):

Link >>> http://spacewatchtower.blogspot.com/2014/03/gravity-waves-found-strong-evidence-of.html

 

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