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Other Jul 21, 2014

Best of Last Week – New type of qubit created, Hubble sees a glowing galaxy and extreme agreeing may solve disagreements

(Phys.org) —Summer may be on us (at least in the northern hemisphere) but scientists are still busy conducting research, particularly at the Large Hadron Collider as physicists detect process even rarer than the long-sought ...

General Physics Jul 17, 2014

Is the universe a bubble? Let's check

Perimeter Associate Faculty member Matthew Johnson and his colleagues are working to bring the multiverse hypothesis, which to some sounds like a fanciful tale, firmly into the realm of testable science.

General Physics Jun 25, 2014

Evidence of the big fix?

The theory of wormholes and multiverse suggests that the parameters of the Standard Model are fixed such that the total entropy at the late stage of the universe is maximized. We consider the radiation of the universe as ...

Astronomy May 30, 2014

Pair of researchers suggest black holes at center of galaxies might instead be wormholes

(Phys.org) —Zilong Li and Cosimo Bambi with Fudan University in Shanghai have come up with a very novel idea—those black holes that are believed to exist at the center of a lot of galaxies, may instead by wormholes. They've ...

General Physics May 13, 2014

Have cosmologists lost their minds in the multiverse?

The recent BICEP2 observations – of swirls in the polarisation of the cosmic microwave background – have been proclaimed as many things, from evidence of the Big Bang and gravitational waves to something strange called the ...

General Physics Apr 24, 2014

Medieval bishop's theory resembles modern concept of multiple universes

A 13th century bishop's theory about the formation of the universe has intriguing parallels with the theory of multiple universes. This was uncovered by the the Ordered Universe project at Durham University, which has brought ...

Other Apr 3, 2014

When science and philosophy collide in a 'fine-tuned' universe

When renowned scientists now talk seriously about millions of multiverses, the old question "are we alone?" gets a whole new meaning.

General Physics Jun 17, 2013

Rethinking the universe: Groundbreaking theory proposed in 1997 suggests a 'multiverse'

Some top scientists are beginning to worry that a radical idea proposed in 1997 by three University of Delaware physicists may be right.

General Physics May 6, 2013

Did the universe evolve to make black holes?

(Phys.org) —The maths underpinning Darwin's theory of natural selection could explain how the universe may be 'designed' to make black holes.

Quantum Physics Feb 5, 2013

Does probability come from quantum physics?

(Phys.org)—Ever since Austrian scientist Erwin Schrodinger put his unfortunate cat in a box, his fellow physicists have been using something called quantum theory to explain and understand the nature of waves and particles.

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