Vera C. Rubin Observatory, with the largest camera ever built, might finally find evidence of the multiverse, which seemed like some kind of science fiction for decades.
Yet multiverse ideas gained scientific weight only in the 1980s, together with the inflation theory, which not only explained why the cosmos is so flat and smooth, but also predicted an endless creation of new ‘bubble’ kinds of universes.A hundred years on from Edwin Hubble’s proof that other galaxies are out there, we might soon find proof of the multiverse’s existenceThe most developed model of a multiverse known to date is cosmological inflation.
“What I didn’t like about inflation was that there are very few genuine predictions – you don’t get out much more than you put in. It just struck me that there has to be a better explanation,” said Neil Turok, a physicist at the University of Edinburgh, UK. While the inflation theory states that the early universe exploded into an infinite number of different universes, known as the inflationary multiverse, the mirror universe theory is way more economical and predictable.“It’s an approach that was born out of a certain sense of frustration with previous approaches. In my view, they had all become rather complicated and contrived, including my own approaches,” Turok explained.
Turok’s mirror universe theory not only suggests a simpler explanation of the universe’s history, but also aims to get some answers about dark matter., the mysterious substance that holds galaxies together, in terms of particles that we have not directly seen but already have strong evidence for,” shared Turok.
The largest LSST camera ever built for astrophysics, at 3200 megapixels, will soon help unlock the universe’s mysteries by taking detailed images of the southern hemisphere sky for 10 years, creating the most comprehensive time-lapse view of our universe we’ve ever seen.
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