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Have scientists found evidence of a parallel universe? ranga-ram-chary
Ranga-Ram Chary

by  John G. Hartnett

Published: 8 December 2015 (GMT+10)


His claim, published in the Astrophysical Journal, suggests some sort of ‘cosmic bruising’—one universe bumping up against another universe—could explain an anomaly he found in the map of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The anomaly is in regards to a mysterious blob of light found in the CMB radiation, which allegedly is leftover radiation from the big bang.

USA Today reports:


Quite obviously the claim is highly speculative. Others are skeptical of the claim. Besides that, you must understand the problem in cosmology of proving anything like this. You would have to disprove all other possible causes to ‘prove’ your thesis. To this news Princeton University’s David Spergel commented1,3 that the dust particles from the cosmic microwave background could hold the key to the mysterious blob of light that Chary identified.


But it is much more problematic than that.





References and notes

  1. Hays, B., Have scientists found evidence of a parallel universe?, 4 November 2015. Return to text
  2. Hanks, M., ‘Mysterious Glow’ May Indicate Evidence of Parallel Universes, Mysterious Universe, 5 November 2015. Return to text
  3. Bradley, G., Cosmologist Rang-Ray Chary claims for evidence of parallel universe, NYC Today, 8 November 2015. Return to text
  4. Hartnett, J.G., ‘Light from the big bang’ casts no shadows, Creation 37(1):50–51, 2015. Return to text

Readers’ comments

Jimmy C.
Could this be the beginning of the end? Revelation 19:11 states "And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and wages war." (NASB)

Could God be opening an entrance into the universe to once again step into time bring his justice to bear?
Don Batten
God is already 'in' the universe; He does not need to open a way in. He who created everything is not limited by needing some 'porthole' to enter it. Jesus "upholds the universe by the word of His power" (Hebrews 1:3). God is omnipresent, meaning He is everywhere.
The point of this article is that the claim is unscientific and extremely conjectural.
Errol B.
Before Hubble’s discovery was published in 1929, Arthur Eddington predicted the temperature of space around galaxies to be about 3 degrees K but Gamow’s predictions were all over the place, first 5 K then 50 K. This shows the CMB prediction was not specific & that alone must be embarrassing for the likes of deGrasse Tyson. However, according to Edward L. Wright, See [link deleted per feedback rules]~wright/Eddington-T0.html Gamow did predict the bump to be in the correct part of the spectrum, i.e.- the correct wavelength (microwave). This aspect of Gamow’s prediction might be more specific but I suspect this is not exclusive. It would be nice to know if there is any other known cosmic source that would likely produce the same kind of bump in the spectrum. Love your articles Dr Hartnett.
John Hartnett
Eddington's prediction in 1926 was on the radiation temperature of space within the Galaxy and based on an optical radiation field not microwave. So his 3 K temperature was a coincidence, not a prediction of the CMB.

In 1941 Andrew McKellar actually detected the presence of CMB microwave radiation, and calculated a temperature 2.3 degrees, using optical spectroscopy on absorption lines in diatomic cyanogen (CN) in interstellar space. But the significance was not realised back then, and possibly due to the obscure journal he published in and the start of WWII, it was not well known.

In 1955 Fred Hoyle and others knew the energy density in space from the radiation derived from conversion of one quarter of all hydrogen to helium in the cosmos. Thomas Gold was in favour of a thermalised background, because natural processes always tend to degrade the quality of energy. But Fred Hoyle and Herman Bondi had no idea of any thermalising agent at that time. Had they made the connection they would have obtained a temperature of 2.74 K in 1955. It was in 1982 E.L. Wright suggested that metallic whiskers might be the cause of large infrared emissions from interstellar gas clouds. Hoyle wrote in 2000 that this was his thermalising agent. But the energy density at infrared wavelengths is estimated by Wright to be much lower than that of the CMB.

The sources of radiation in the cosmos, besides the CMB, are well approximated by a blackbody spectrum. Galaxies, stars emit light at optical wavelengths, infrared etc and we see such spectra. But if your question is, are there alternate sources that could produce the same microwave spectrum as that of the CMB, then Hoyle would have said yes. He put it down to thermalised starlight. But the main question is not what the source is but is it evidence of the big bang? Is it leftover residual radiation of the big bang? We may not know exactly the source but observations suggest it is not from the most "background" source, thus not from the big bang fireball at all. Read ‘Light from the big bang’ casts no shadows, Creation magazine 37(1):50-51, 2015. Or this here.
murk P.
Thank you for bringing this to the world's attention.

is a parallel universe not something that is invoked to explain what cannot happen here?

In fact it stems from the atheistic immoral position that anything can happen.

Since this is clearly not the case in our universe let's pretend that there are infinite ones where up is down and princesses really do live happily ever after.

Laws that govern matter thus do not apply so the thing would not be detectable.

In addition a redefinition of universe is required since it means to turn as one not many.

professing to be wise they became fools

sad indeed
Stephen H.
When I was an Isra (a type of moderator) on an Israel chat site on the old AOL, one of our standard chat line guests asked a guest speaker, a famous Jewish Cosmologist, who had been making a comparison of Genesis' six days of creation in terms of Big Bang time, "WHAT DOES THE KABALLAH SAY ABOUT THE BIG BANG."

I'm sorry but I JUST HAD TO DO IT.

I interrupted with, "KABOOM?"

There may be 30 minutes of silence in heaven but I knew there was about a minute of silence on the chat site until a list of "LOL" lit up the screen from the other guests. This is a true story, I was Isra Melach.
Robert B.
It seems to me, that a sky full of diffuse matter with an average temperature of 2.725K and a large enough average particle size to emit in the 2 mm wavelengths would create the same radiation as the CMB.

Pardon my ignorance, but is there any evidence that rules out the possibility that the CMB is just being emitted by cold, interstellar matter that is fairly close to us in the Milky Way?
Don Batten
Good thoughts. see Planck sees big bang? (and other CMBR articles on
Hans G.
For how long do those cosmologist study? 3-4 years?
It takes 4 sec to read the first sentence of the creator's book, there it is, the parallel 'universe' and the light source is revealed in this book as well.
Don Batten
A Ph.D. normally takes a minimal total of seven years, including an honours degree to start with, but often longer. However, it does not matter how long someone studies for; if they have the wrong starting point, that the universe began with no causal agent (no supernatural Creator), then they will never arrive at an accurate understanding of the universe. That's the problem.
Terry D P.
So near, yet so far from discovering a true parallel universe…
THEN I SAW a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had vanished, and there was no longer any sea. — Rev§21:1

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