Wednesday, 6 April 2011

Mind Fuck: Day 9

Today I found out... That by doing a lot of maths and spending hours observing particle accelerators, scientists believe they can look back to 10-47 seconds after the moment of creation...  It is perhaps worth being reminded that 10-47 is ten million, trillion, trillion, trillionths of a second, or 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 seconds ...


Some experts believe that there may have been other big bangs, perhaps trillions and trillions of them, spread through the mighty span of eternity, and that the reason why we exist in this particular one is that, this is one that we could exist in.  Although the creation of a universe might be very unlikely, a scientist called Tryon from Columbia University emphasized that no one had counted the failed attempts !

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