brane theory

There is even more to the picture than that. Some recent articles talk about an "ekpyrotic universe" (click for an article) where the "big bang" event is one of many recurring collisions between branes. This allows the event to cover substantial portions of space in the collision(s) such that "inflation" is not required. It also predicts the effects observed that require the additional concepts of both dark energy and dark matter to the standard model.The repeating cycles of universes should make fundamentalist Hindus very happy.To summarize:
(1) energy comes from the collision (not "something from nothing")
(2) inflation not required to match theory to observation
(3) dark matter not required to match theory to observation
(4) dark energy not required to match theory to observation
(5) it matches the "standard model" for the rest of the observations.Occam's razor anyone?Enjoy.ps - it's "dimension"

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If you read the article the minimum dimensions is 5 to allow for the other branes.

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you need to look into dark energy and dark matter a little further, methinks.there is no theory that produces them, they are observations that do not fit the "standard model" so the model is "tweaked" to accomodate them ... the reason they are called "dark" is because they are "black box" fixes.looks like "epicycles" to me (and to some scientists)

Obviously we disagree on which is more likeley.Enjoy.

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it works for me

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