so while i was listening to
the grand design audiobook, [doing my best imitation of that awful carrie bradshaw]
i couldn't help but wonder -- can we find evidence of other universes or states beyond or 'before' the big bang?
it seems that
sir roger penrose claims that he's found windows to a '
previous' universe in the form of ripples in the cosmic microwave background.
i put
previous in quotes because ... well, i'm not sure if there can be a before
before the beginning of time...?
i downloaded a PDF of his abstract, which
'posits the existence of an aeon preceding our big bang'... but obviously i have no hope of understanding any of it.
found at
io9 which refers to the PDF at
arxiv.
EDIT:
it looks like not everyone is impressed with penrose's idea.thanks to physicist
jonathan shock for the link.
