Scientists
have discovered a mysterious ‘Cold Spot’ in space that could prove our universe
is just one of an endless string of realities.
The Cold
Spot is an area of space 13 billion-years-old and 1.8 billion light years
across, which is 0.00015 degrees Celsius (0.00027 degrees Fahrenheit) colder
than its surroundings – and this unfathomable mass ‘might be taken as the first
evidence for the multiverse.’
Astronomers
have been unable to explain the cause of this massive supervoid – and a new
study conducted by Durham University claims it couldn’t possibly exist at all.
The
co-author of the study, Professor Tom Shanks said:
We can’t entirely rule out that the Spot is caused by an unlikely fluctuation explained by the standard model [of particle physics]. But if that isn’t the answer, then there are more exotic explanations.
Perhaps the most exciting of these is that the Cold Spot was caused by a collision between our universe and another bubble universe. If further, more detailed, analysis … proves this to be the case then the Cold Spot might be taken as the first evidence for the multiverse.
The new
study suggests galaxies in the Cold Spot cluster around smaller voids that
spread over the region like bubbles, and that there is only a two per cent
chance that it formed randomly.
If Shanks’
assertions are true, the Cold Spot indicates that our cosmos contains an
infinite number of parallel universes which, in turn, contain an infinite
number of realities.
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But this
theory isn’t straight off the pages of sci-fi, as astronomy expert Dr Stuart
Clarke wrote in the Guardian:
These uncountable realms sit side by side in higher dimensions that our senses are incapable of perceiving directly. Each alternate universe carries its own different version of reality.
There will be one where you wrote this column and I read it… even a really weird one in which Donald Trump uses twitter to spread nothing but amusing cat videos.
Brilliantly
sassy and politically-motivated astronomers aside, this news could mean that
somewhere out there, Rick and Morty are truly travelling through parallel
dimensions and eating Szechuan sauce and that, on another realm, you could play
Matthew McConaughey’s character in Interstellar.
The
possibilities are endless and this is truly the most fascinating timeline.
Mind. Blown.
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