Cross-posted at Immizen.com
A friend sent me this interesting article that my guess is, at the risk of sounding sexist, only guys read: “Our universe may have emerged from a black hole in a higher-dimensional universe”
Now, whenever I read about Black Holes, and here at the risk of sounding pretentious, I usually get bored because I was interested in them when I was 14, just like my daughter, who is 15 asks me now "What was there before the universe was created, and what created that other thing?"
But this article or the study it refers to, at least had a refreshing aspect to it. I enjoyed finally reading about scientists saying that our universe was never inside a singularity, and dragons could have come flying out of the Big Bang for all we know.
But now they say it arose from another, higher-dimensional universe.
Well, great. Isn't it?
How was that other higher-dimensional universe created? Aren't we back to square one?
The researchers of this “new theory”, as the article explains, have an original/creative way of presenting this physics-drenched mathematical model. They compare the Big Bang to a “warped cosmic mirage”. Yes, a mirage. They go further and compare the situation with Plato's allegory of the cave, which tells of prisoners in a cave fooled into believing that reality is nothing more than the shadows flickering on the wall:
"Their shackles have prevented them from perceiving the true world, a realm with one additional dimension," wrote the researchers. "Plato's prisoners didn't understand the powers behind the sun, just as we don't understand the four-dimensional bulk universe. But at least they knew where to look for answers."
Are they implying that now we know where to look for answers? In the fourth dimension?
I am going to the beach now to read the Life of Pi, in which, a young Indian boy tackles issues that are more "solvable", like how to feed fish to a tiger in a lifeboat in the middle of the Ocean.