Feb 07, 2013 08:12
It occurred to me last night that the accelerating expansion of the universe due to dark energy, which will ultimately fling the other galaxies away from us faster than the speed of light, is the opposite of black holes, in which gravity becomes so strong that light can not escape.
These two super-macroscopic effects create zones of impossible-to-observe realities. In a similar way to how the Heisenberg uncertainty principle creates sub-microscopic zones of impossible-to-observe realities.
And this is where the theory of multiple universes creeps in. Not that there are literally multiple universes, but that the universe contains both super-macroscopic and sub-microscopic boundaries beyond which we cannot observe. Yet, we can infer that something exists beyond these boundaries.
And don't get me started on multiple dimensions that we can not directly perceive ;-)
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