Science Discovers What UN.AR.I.U.S. Has Said All Along
The Black Hole at the Beginning of Time
by Niayesh Afshordi, Robert B. Mann and Razieh Pourhasan
-August 2014, Scientific American, 38-39, 43
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“IN HIS ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE, THE GREEK PHILOSOPHER PLATO DESCRIBED prisoners who have spent their entire lives chained to the wall of a dark cavern. Behind the prisoners lies a flame, and between the flame and prisoners parade objects that cast shadows onto a wall in the prisoners’ field of view. These two-dimensional shadows are the only things that the prisoners have ever seen-their only reality. Their shackles have prevented them form perceiving the true world, a realm with one additional dimension to the world that they know, a dimension rich with complexity and-unbeknownst to the prisoners-capable of explaining all that they see. Plato was on to something.
We may all be living in a giant cosmic cave, created in the very first moments of existence. In the standard telling, the universe came into being during a big bang that started from an infinitely dense point, but according to recent calculations that we have carried out, we may be able to track the start of the universe back to an era before the big bang-an era with an additional dimension of space. This protouniverse may have left visible traces that upcoming astronomical observations could uncover.
The universe appears to us to exist in three dimensions of space and one of time-a geometry that we will refer to as the “three-dimensional universe.” In our scenario, this three-dimensional universe is merely the shadow of a world with four spatial dimensions. Specifically, our entire universe came into being during a stellar implosion in this suprauniverse, an implosion that created a three-dimensional shell around a four-dimensional black hole. Our universe is that shell.
Why would we postulate something that sounds, on the face of it, so absurd? We have two reasons. First, our ideas are not idle speculation-they are firmly grounded in the mathematics that describe space and time. (more…)
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