The big idea:What if the universe were a physical object?
Current thinking says the Big Bang exploded the universe into existence and its been expanding ever since.
But the Waterloo teams work imagines the universe as a space in which the Big Bang occurred.
It disputes the long-held scientific notion that the Big Bang was immediately followed by a period of rapid inflation.
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As LiveSciences Paul Sutterrecently wrote:
Physicists have identified a set of fundamental symmetries in nature.
Neurals interpretation:This is super cool.
Imagine our universe as a soap bubble.
Now imagine theres a photo-negative soap bubble connected to the one we live in.
The significance here is that the particles move towards the edges, but neither universe inflates.
The scientists ran numerous simulations to confirm many of the assertions in their theory.
