The Cosmos in a Test Tube


	The Cosmos in a Test Tube

wildcat

12-27-2007 11:02 AM

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universe, test tube, string theory

wildcat says:

"In effect, we have made a universe in a test tube."

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12-27-2007 11:33 AM

dorine

This is very similar to what I "saw" while I was under anesthesia during the 70s. Don't know what I "saw", but it scared me to death for a long time.

12-27-2007 9:01 PM

syncopath

There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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Great Britain's Lancaster University may have found a laboratory test of the ‘untestable’ string
theory, made popular by Brian Greene at Columbia University. Within
string theory, a brane is a large surface embedded in higher
dimensional space — our Universe could occupy such a brane.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/12/the-cosmos-in-a.html">A popular theory amongst string
theorists is that inflation was caused by the collision of two
'branes'. A brane (derived from the word 'membrane') is a
three-dimensional object suspended in a higher-dimensional space. One tenet of string theory is that a collision between a brane and an antibrane could
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