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The Giant Cosmic Domino Effect

Have you ever wondered about the origin of our Universe and how it might end? Well, this is

a basic yet very philosophical question. Even if there have been a lot of proposals about different models of the universe and examining the evidence for it is an ongoing process and who knows when it might end with a conclusive answer, this does not stop us from having creative imaginations about the picture of our universe and we perceive the reality.

The scientific theory that got me thinking for about 2 to 3 weeks was the multiverse theory. There might be a multitude of universes floating out in the vast and empty space with me and you, doing completely different things than we are in this universe. To get the feel of this phenomenon, I recommend watching the series "Dark," which is all about entangled relations due to time travel not just in that very same universe but also in different universes. From there, I had an epiphany: what if even we could enter a different universe and meet ourselves? But before that, what is it through which we can travel into another universe?

Various theories suggest that it might be a black hole, or rather the opposite of it – a wormhole - which can act as a bridge from one universe to another. However, what exactly lies beyond these devouring monsters is still a mystery.

In my viewpoint, since a black hole is nothing but the gravitational collapse of a star, which is composed of matter, which is atoms, what if, at one point, we keep digging into the atom through protons, quarks, and then gluons, which are force-carrying particles that are responsible for sticking all particles together to form that proton? But what it might be is a gateway to another universe. It might be that this gluon would be using leftover energy from another universe to keep the atom stable since we know that an atom consists of an immense amount of energy within it. When this very atom is destroyed, it opens a portal to that universe. Similarly, even our universe might be a minute particle, and the leftover energy of our universe might be used to keep a giant atom intact and stable.

It feels like it would be an unending journey if we kept traveling from one bigger universe to the biggest universe or from a smaller universe to the smallest, and from both sides, there would not be any endpoint.

More fascinatingly, most science enthusiasts must have heard about radioactive decay, which is a random process. The more striking thing about it is that you cannot interfere with this process. In other words, even if you try to burn the radioactive substance, bury it under the ground, sink it in the deep ocean, or teleport it to another planet, you cannot prevent it from happening. Maybe the dreadful explosions happening in one universe might cause the atom to decay randomly since such explosions as the death of a star or the merging of black holes, galaxies, etc. cannot be guaranteed, especially in another universe that is completely unknown to us. It means that the atoms that make up our body might also consist of such a universe. That means, our body has been running on leftover energy from other universes, and another thing that blows my mind is how many such universes might exist in this universe.

Well, it is just my imagination, but who knows? It might be true as well.


Author: Sayali Sawant Editor: Sanskriti Nayyar Illustrator: Kanishka Shrivastava

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