Bennett Artman

Will Our Universe Collide With a Neighboring One? by Zeeya Merall, Discover Magazine, November 4, 2009 http://http://discovermagazine.com/2009/oct/04-will-our-universe-collide-with-neighboring-one

The article I have read says that our universe went through an enormous expansion at an unbelievable rate. The universe now bears the scars of that incident and of a possible impact with another a very long time ago. The question of many scientists is if it will happen again. The scientists pose a multiverse theory which says that there are more universes than ours. Some universes expand at rates faster than the speed of light and this extremely gast motion would create a mirror of the light. These future universes may contain physical forces the likes of which have never been expierienced in ours. Howecer the possible death by bubble fate for our universe is rare according to the calculations of Alan Guth a scientist from the Physical Institute of Moscow. Guth and other scientists have considered trying to find a way to see an impending attack on the galaxy. The scientists plan to use a microwave probe to detect an oncoming universe. The death by bubble thought is indeed a scary one, thankfully, the chances of this ever happening is extremely low.

I thought that this article was very informing and complex. I was before familiar with the multiverse theory which I never really paid much attention to. After I had rad this article I was feeling a little anxious to realize that we could be vaporized at any second. This fear along with the Sun expandiong to far and vaporizing Earth. I am just so glad that this explains the slim chances of this incident ever happening. I enjoyed the article because of my new found knowledge gained from it.