Neutrons escape to another universe

5:30 AM Saturday Feb 4, 2012

The concept of the Multiverse isn't new, but scientists think they can add credibility by observing neutrons jumping from one universe to the next. Photo / Silver Spoon, Wikimedia

Physicists have long been studying neutrons and their speed of decay with the aid of a device called a neutron bottle. During these experiments, some neutrons "escape," and scientist Michael Sarrazin, and his colleagues at The University of Namur, have hypothesised that these neutrons may be switching to another universe.

TINY SOLAR SYSTEM

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NEUTRINO TELESCOPE

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By Rachael McKinnon

Arch (Mt Wellington) | 11:27AM Sunday, 05 Feb 2012

Neutrons switch to another universe? It pays to remember Niels Bohr's comment on a lecture by Wolfgang Pauli:

"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough."

Grant (Otago) | 12:50PM Sunday, 05 Feb 2012

But at least we do know some stuff. Thats better than knowing nothing (which is what religion obviously prefers us to know). And its certainly better than merely believing any old thing on faith.

Man might not be the "centre of all things" (I certainly never heard of a scientist claiming such a thing), but as the only species capable of understanding our universe he is clearly the most important - to us humans.
BTW, no scientist calls the Big Bang "accidental", nor do they claim the human species arose as a result of it.

As for ignorance, that would be most singularly advanced by an unwillingness to investigate the facts of observable reality and to develop a coherent, logically consistent explanation for them. Because that is the process by which an intelligent species acquires Knowledge.

metdevil () | 10:47AM Tuesday, 07 Feb 2012

Why is it that whenever a science related story pops up some moron has to turn it into a religious debate? If anything, believing in a God which you have no physical evidence whatsoever to proove its existence is far more unintelligible than physicists actually going out and trying to find physical evidence of the origin of time and space. Atleast physicists are actually trying give us answers about the universe instead of relying on the same answer of "God did it" every time they're asked about the origin of Uhe Universe. Have you ever thought that this could be "HOW God did it"?

I'm not religous, I believe in the big bang theory and the theory that all elements are created in the core of stars, not in any 'God/s' and if I was religious would it really be that difficult to accept if these theories were true? I don't think so, but some people make it seem like it would be.