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15 Absolutely Bonkers Theories About The Universe

By:: Jay L'Ecuyer; Carlie Procell

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15 Absolutely Bonkers Theories About The Universe

There's no shortage of bonker theories on the internet. Some are so out there that they're hard to believe. But others are so plausible that you can't help but wonder if there's any truth to them. There are all sorts of theories about the universe, and some of them are absolutely bonkers. Some people think that the universe is actually a computer simulation or that it was created by a god. Others believe that time travel is possible or that there are parallel universes out there somewhere.

It's definitely fun to think about these wacky theories, but at the end of the day, we just don't know what really happened at the beginning of the universe. There's no way to know for sure until we find a way to travel back in time or explore alternate universes! In the meantime, we'll just have to continue to speculate about what could be out there. Who knows? Maybe one of these theories will turn out to be true!

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Evolving Universes What if matter was compressed to such an extreme density at the centre of a black hole that it creates a precious little baby universe? In theory, universes with a lot of black holes would have a lot of children whose laws of physics might differ from their parent. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cosmic Ghosts Our universe is riddled with inexplicable forces that tear space apart, and hold spinning galaxies together. For now, they're called dark matter and dark energy, but since these spooky mysteries make up 95% of our universe, they leave much to theorize about. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Big Crunch & The Big Bounce Maybe the Big Bang wasn't the beginning, but just a new beginning. This theory suggests a universe expands until it collapses in a Big Crunch, then re-expands in a Big Bounce, and we are now in one of an infinite sequence of universes. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jain Cosmology Aw, science and religion make nice again. The ancient Indian religion, Jainism, believes that matter, space, time, and principles of motion have always existed since it's impossible to create matter out of nothing. A belief shared by the law of conservation of energy. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Big Splat What if the Big Bang was actually a Big Splat of two colliding universes? Some cosmologists believe that our ever-expanding universe could expand right into another expanding universe, generating enough energy to create a whole new universe. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Panentheism What if we're all just cells in God's body? Not to be confused with Pantheism, Panentheism (from the ancient Greek: all in God) suggests that the universe is inside God, and the theory has been present in religion and philosophy as early as 1300 ВСЕ. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Cosmic Ego-Trip Nick Bostrom is at it again! His self-centered anthropic theory states that if countless occurrences happened at just the right times for life as we know it to exist, then people could see this as evidence that the universe was consciously designed just for us. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Simulation Theory S x Philosopher Nick Bostrom (and many others) claim that we are living inside a computer simulation. Like the movie, The Matrix, they believe that a far more advanced civilization has programmed our simulated consciousness and are looking in CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Steady-State Universe Evolutionary Theory Steady-State Theory Opposing the Big Bang's starting point and ever-expanding universe, scientists propose an eternal universe in one steady state. They imagine the universe looks the same from any time and place, but it hasn't gained the scientific support that the Big Bang CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Holographic Universe The 3-D universe might be encoded on its 2-D boundary like a hologram. A holographic theory might sound like science fiction, but research in 2017 from the University of Southampton, UK, showed that it is consistent with observed patterns in space. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Time's Arrow Sean Carroll suggests that there could be other Big Bangs like ours that sprout other universes whose arrows of time run in many different directions - including backwards. The question is, What happens when the arrow reaches its target? CRACKED.COM — Source

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Pantheism GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD Pantheism is where science and religion meet: where reality is identical with divinity. Pantheists do not believe that God is a white-bearded man in heaven, but they see God in everything from an insect to a galaxy cluster billions of lightyears away. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Brane & The Bulk Physicists Steinhardt & Turok feel the Big Bang theory fails to explain certain things. They imagine our entire universe as one three dimensional sheet (or brane) moving through a four dimensional background called the bulk. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Goldilocks Universe Assuming you're still on board with the multiverse, the Goldilocks theory asks why our universe is just right to permit light and life. Other universes might have different laws of gravity, a different speed of light, or could be born and die in the blink of an eye. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Multiverse By calling it the Universe, we're assuming there's only one. The theory of inflation suggests an infinity of universes, proposing that other universes are constantly popping up in the inflationary sea, with the whole ensemble making up the multiverse. CRACKED.COM — Source

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