Quark Soup

The article that I read was “Quark Soup” and the sentence that opened it was what really caught my attention, “Physicists create conditions not seen since the big bang.”  The two labs mentioned in this article I had heard of before, Fermilab, and Cern. Fermilab is located here in the United States and Cern is in Switzerland. Fermilab had a small particle collider and Cern had the large Hadron Collider. But between the two, Fermilab had been the first to learn that gravity particles, when smashed, that some disappear.

But that wasn’t in the article, I went off subject, but that’s how this article relates to the parallel universes idea.

Fermilab discovered a quark, well, the top quark. But they know that there are actually six quarks. But the last quark that anyone knew of only lasted one microsecond, and that was in a quark soup.

Quark soup is made by melting protons and neutrons.

But quark actually comes from the big bang, which only occurs when a new parallel universe is created.

But I really enjoyed reading this article and learning about a new thing. This article was published on the Newsweek website on February 15, 2010. But, there was a lot that I didn’t know, like that you could actually melt protons and neutrons.  I didn’t think that was really possible.

Well now I think that we may be able to find out if another universe was created, just when we find quark, if it comes here and we find it.

Theory of Anything

“Theory of Anything?” was published on the Slate website, on November 23, 2005. This article was about string theory. Well more likely about the fact that he did not believe in string theory. His name is Lawrence Krauss. He’s a physics professor, and an astronomer at a university. He wrote a book called “Hiding in the Mirror.”

But, Krauss does not believe in string theory, because it couldn’t be tested. He believes that they string theory is for suckers. But in the article he talks about “General Theory of Relativity” and quantum mechanics.

But, string theory cannot be tested like how they tested the relativity theory and quantum mechanics. So in his eyes, it isn’t really a theory, it’s just a hope for a theory. But until it can be tested it’s not really anything in the real world.

The theory of relativity was that matter and gravity were equivalent, and that matter was basically pulling everything together. This theory was great, from 1905-1915.

The theory of quantum mechanics lasted from 1900-1927, and in that period, it was what was really worked on. And this was the theory that momentum and the position of a particle could not be determined at the same time.

And string theory was from 1969 to now and it is still being worked on. String theory is the “Theory of everything” and I think that it does exist. But I really enjoyed this article. It was interesting, and something that I had not read before. 

Unraveling of the String Theory

The article that I read this week was, “The Unraveling of the String Theory”. It was published on August 14, 2006. The string theory is what made the thought of parallel universes more possible. String theory is the theory that just about everything is made up of little vibrating strings. String theory, was what everyone thought of as the “theory of everything” because theorist thought that even atoms were made up of vibrating strings. These strings did not just exist in a four dimension, but went as far as ten or more dimensions. But people are beginning to abandon the thought of the string theory because when the theorists try to test the theory, it cannot be tested. The physicists are trying to think of new ways to test the string theory. They can’t use the “old-fashioned” way to test the theory because the mathematics are too complex. Every time that they test the theory, new problems arise in the theory. The actual theory itself, is more complex than the math itself. Just the combination of the characteristics is hard. Little vibrating loops and strings that would be impossible to see, and much more harder to test the theory actually on. There is a lot that theorist would have to do to get a small string to test. I would not want to be the one to test this theory! 

Parallel Universes.

Ok so, this week, the article I read was “Parallel Universes” by Michio Kaku on the BBC Network site. This article was published on February 14, 2002. Ok so this article was interesting.

                Parallel universes, are like ours. A lot like ours, because they aren’t very different. In some, people who have passed in our universe might still be alive in others. Empires that have vanished might still be going strong. But, other universes are just really different. Maybe the dinosaurs still exist in one? Maybe there are no people in another universe. These other universes might not know that there are other universes. But the other universes, they may know and they may have signals. Our universe has a signal, but it is very weak. This signal is our very gravity.

                We had originally thought that there were only three dimensions. Originally, the superstring theory, dark matter, and hyperspace, were the three dimensions. But as they studied it, they realized that there were eleven dimensions. Our universe is in the eleventh dimension.

                I learned that that when universe “bubbles” touch, there is a new universe born. Really known as the “Big Bang Theory” and that is what happened when our universe was born. But our universe is just a bubble among an infinite amount of bubbles, but that’s just in the 11th dimension. I try not to imagine the amount of baby universes that are created in each dimension when another pair of bubbles touch in another dimension, every day.

Will We Discover Another Universe?

Ok, so I found an article, called “Will we discover Another Universe?” in Time Magazine. It was an interesting article, because it was published back in 2000. Well as I was reading I learned that the thought of a parallel universe was thought of long before it was really, well thought of. That was the main concept in “Alice in Wonderland” and when I was reading I just realized it! But this article talks about the theories of the parallel universe. It talked about “baby universes” and black holes.

Baby universes, are basically the other ends of black holes, and wormholes. Well it’s a theory, that the baby universe is the end of the wormhole. Some physicists think that they can create baby universes. All by using the black hole matter.

But, the thought of parallel universes, came from Hugh Everett, well the first credited suggestion of it. He played with the implications of quantum mechanics.

One thing that they wrote about in the article was that there are bubbles in these parallel universes. Well they think that there are bubbles and these are “metaverses”. These bubbles are inflated by preexisting universes. If the bubbles were to touch thou, it would cause a wall of fieriness, or most likely the destruction of the universes.

But, I enjoyed this article. It was interesting. 

Is There a Parallel Universe?

My curiosity question was: is there a parallel universe?

My answer came out to be no, but actually there are multiverses. A multiverse is “the simplest type of parallel universe.” Quoting from the article, “Welcome to the Multiverse!” on Newsweek.

As I was doing my research on parallel universes, not many results came up; until I looked on Newsweek. When I looked on Newsweek, I found this article called, “Welcome to the Multiverse!” and it was very interesting. It tells of how he got his information, and of whose theories that he uses.  Like for instance “Greene introduced quantum mechanics and Einstein’s theories of special and general relativity”, that small part tells us a lot!

But, this article was actually for his book, and that I did not get a chance to find, much less read. Apparently in his book, (as this article tells me) “Greene describes nine different theories in which imply that we are living in a vast multiverse” again paraphrasing from the article. Another thing was the “Copernican Patter” which apparently occurs every 500 years.

OK, back to the multiverse thing. Another thing was that the multiverse seems to be “quilted” as Greene calls it. Another small detail, that I found interesting was that “our cosmic horizon is about 14 billion light years away” another sentence I am paraphrasing from the article.

But concluding the article was basically being told that there may be multiverses inside of other multiverses.

But concluding, the answer to my question, yes there are thousands of parallel universes.