What is Happening?

I have found something interesting! Oh yea, by the way, I love Twitter! No, I don’t care for the tweets between individuals that tweet about, “OMG this guy just spilled coffee on me”. I love the tweets from news organizations or individuals that tweet short updates on news event with a link to the full article.  This gives me a quick review on what is happening, plus if I find the news item interesting enough I can read the full article. One of the organizations I have been following is The Daily Galaxy. Some of the writing is very interesting! For example: “There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened”. This of course is kind of a “cute” thought, sort of leads to the thinking of the Anthropic Principle. “The universe had to create an intelligent live form that is capable to observe it, without an observer, the universe cannot exist.”  Personally, I don’t buy it, but what the heck do I know.
A more interesting article is titled: “Is Gravity from a Parallel Universe Dark Energy?” Now that is way more interesting! The idea is based in string theory, 10 dimensions plus time etc.  Neil Turok of Cambridge University and Paul Steinhardt, Albert Einstein Professor in Science  and Director of the Center for Theoretical Science at Princeton think that there are 3 dimensional plus time branes (flat looking sheets) that collide every trillion years or so creating the big bang ultimately creating us. According to Turok and Steinhardt, the branes are still very close to each other about 10 to 35 meters apart, so gravity could bleed from one universe to the other creating the mysterious dark matter. Cool! I understand their idea in principal. There is a link to a video that shows that collision between the branes, but somehow I have difficulties to imagine a universe such as ours, about 92 billion light years across, right next to another parallel universe of similar size, only 10 to 35 meters apart. The question comes up, what is the space made off between the universes? But here is the exciting news. As a science fiction writer, this opens up the possibility for some really interesting writing. Think about it, dark matter is here, it’s everywhere, linked to a parallel universe that is only at most 35 meters away from us. All the deja vue, ghosts, un-natural stuff, alien abduction, feelings of I have seen that before, all caused by a universe that is only 35 meters away from us. Very interesting!
For the full article, check out The Daily Galaxy!