Comment Interesting, but... (Score 1) 24
Although this sounds like an interesting alternative to the Big Bang, bringing up multiple universes raises a whole host of other questions. Once other factors like this are taken into account, many other scenarios can be constructed. However, The Big Bang is still the simplest solution.
String theory was a nice step in trying to unify the various forces, just as dark matter was a nice step in trying to clear up our current astronomical measurements. However, it is not clear in either case yet whether we have made actual discoveries, or just invented a theory to match our current data. We know so little at the moment that neither one really has the sort of status as a theory that, for example, "The Big Bang" does. And even that is far less certain than, say, Kepler's Laws.
So although this is a nice postulate, and more information may come to the fore supporting it in the future, remember that nothing in science is really ever certain. All of this is relatively new science, but hopefully we will make substantial progress answering these questions in the next decade, or century.
String theory was a nice step in trying to unify the various forces, just as dark matter was a nice step in trying to clear up our current astronomical measurements. However, it is not clear in either case yet whether we have made actual discoveries, or just invented a theory to match our current data. We know so little at the moment that neither one really has the sort of status as a theory that, for example, "The Big Bang" does. And even that is far less certain than, say, Kepler's Laws.
So although this is a nice postulate, and more information may come to the fore supporting it in the future, remember that nothing in science is really ever certain. All of this is relatively new science, but hopefully we will make substantial progress answering these questions in the next decade, or century.
