The document discusses several theories about cycles of time and the origins of the universe, including that the Big Bang resulted from the collapse of a previous universe phase bouncing back, that black holes from a previous universe phase bounced to seed new expanding universes, and that new universes sprung from "false vacuums" in a previous phase. One character finds these theories to be "pretty crazy."
The document discusses several theories about cycles of time and the origins of the universe, including that the Big Bang resulted from the collapse of a previous universe phase bouncing back, that black holes from a previous universe phase bounced to seed new expanding universes, and that new universes sprung from "false vacuums" in a previous phase. One character finds these theories to be "pretty crazy."
The document discusses several theories about cycles of time and the origins of the universe, including that the Big Bang resulted from the collapse of a previous universe phase bouncing back, that black holes from a previous universe phase bounced to seed new expanding universes, and that new universes sprung from "false vacuums" in a previous phase. One character finds these theories to be "pretty crazy."
previous collapsing phase which “bounced” to become our Big Bang.
And there are other theories where little bits of a previous phase of the universe collapsed into things we call black holes, and these bits “bounced”, to become the seeds of lots and lots of new expanding universes, and there are others where new universes sprang out of things called “false vacuums”. . .’ ‘That all sounds pretty crazy to me,’ Tom said. ‘And, oh yes, there’s another theory that I heard about recently . . .’
Big Bang Theory - The PremiseThe Big Bang theory is an effort to explain what happened at the very beginning of our universe. Discoveries in astronomy and physics have shown beyond a reasonable doubt that our universe (1).pdf