Ping!
I have extreme problems dealing with this universe; don’t tell me I may have another one to worry about.
much simpler explanation. According to the “standard texts” about the big bang that I’ve read (Hawking and Forward, IIRC, as examples) there should have been as much anti-matter as matter created initially. Lot’s of work has gone into explaining why we don’t see evidence of it.
This is just the area where the matter and anti-matter of our single universe came together in symmetrical opposite “halves.” Enough of the matter/anti-matter at the edges have annihilated each other to leave this void between the two sectors. Occasionally there would still be stray matter going both ways, briefly, and spectacular events, but they’ll be hard to detect. We should be able to predict some detectable events to see if I’m right.
There, I’ve done the hard part and come up with a hypothesis , a theory and prediction. Now the rest of you get to work on testing it. I’m done here.
Oh Mr. Nobel? You gave one to the Goracle, why not me next year?
thanks, bfl
Another universe? PSHAW! This observation merely confirms the long-standing Dunkin Theorem that our universe is doughnut-shaped...and these guys finally found the hole.
As long as this is atributable to “random” chance, and not God. . the ACLU will be happy!
bump