One of the most commonly asked questions our scientists receive is about the existence of life elsewhere in our universe. But answering a straight forward YES or NO, scientist community prefer to say if there is water or atmosphere or in other words, essential ingredients that can support the life forms of any kind, there is a possibility. Now that’s about to change. Physicists agree, one day it may be possible for a person to create a universe and even support life forms on that. Is this a joke? No, according to Columbia University physics professor Brian Greene, it is theoretically not impossible (which is his way of saying the possibilities are not zero) that one day, a person could build a universe.
From time immemorial, no one else has supported the skills necessary to create a universe but there is a bunch of physicists who support this conjecture. It won’t happen tomorrow, but the idea is in the works. There’s already one problem with the idea: If a universe is created, physicists say they wouldn’t know how to communicate with it.
The very idea is so startling it’s hard to know what this means.
The physicists put it this way: One day (far off, no doubt), it may be possible to go into a laboratory on Earth, create a “seed” – a device that could grow into a universe — and then there would have to be a way to get that seed, on command, to safely expand into a separate, infinite, unexplorable but very real alternate universe.
The seed, he suggests, could be a black hole. Not the big black holes that sit near the centers of so many galaxies, but what he calls a “mini black hole.” Black holes, he says, don’t have to be big. They can, in theory, be very small.
It’s sort of like playing God in this perspective and maybe it’s time we redefine God as something more sophisticated than just the creator of the universe. but one of the good things about being God is that there’s not much competition, but we may have found the key to creating universes ourselves. One can only hope no one is in a hurry to give it a real try until it’s better understood.
Via: NPR
