Cosmic map reveals first evidence of other universes
SCIENTISTS believe they have found the first evidence that other universes
The finding, based on data gathered by the European Space Agency’s Planck
spacecraft, implies that our universe could be just one of billions —
perhaps an infinite number.
Such theories have been discussed by cosmologists for decades — but until now
they have lacked any evidence.
A few weeks ago, however, scientists published a spectacular new map of the
cosmic microwave background — the “radiation” left behind after the Big Bang
that created the universe 13.8bn years ago.
The map, based on Planck data, showed anomalies in the background radiation
that, some cosmologists say, could only have been caused by the
gravitational pull of other universes outside our own.
“These anomalies were caused by other universes pulling on our universe as it
formed during the Big Bang,” said Laura Mersini-Houghton, a theoretical
physicist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel