Hubble Kaleidoscope - End of Space - M Theory etc..

[markearthling]

I was reading over at science news about "The End of Space" by I Got Wisdom (or some such )

but not allowed to comment (topic locked). Since God showed this to "Got Wisdom"

I won't bother to pursue this one too closely.

 

One thing did bother me and that was that on The Onion they were talking about the

Hubble Kaleidoscope (Is A Kaleidoscope for real ?) and how astronomers have recently

observed total "Weirdness" out in space with this thing. What is the Hubble Kaleidoscope

and is The Onion reporting valid/serious science/astronomy news ?

 

I went over to

 

http://www.astronomy.pomona.edu/penprase/BEPresearch.website/Default.html

 

This one has links to something called project Kaleidoscope

 

http://www.pkal.org/collections/About.cfm

 

This one seems to be the home for project Kaleidoscope which is some kind

of educational program ?

 

On M Theory

 

I think that M (Membrane) theory says that the universe has a 3 dimensional

(I think there may be more than three dimensions ?) donut like shape

and I think that einsteins' work says that if you travel far enough in space

that you just come back around on your path until you arrive back at your starting

point (like in a loop).

 

So maybe we could actually see an end to space/our universe

(as I think M theory proposes that there are many universes

which could exist side by side in some kind of bubble structure)

using our most powerfull scopes if an end is actually there

(or would light travel also in a giant loop around the universal donut

and so we could never break out and see any end of space even

though it could be there ?).

 

I think M theory also proposes that because there are multiple

universal donuts that these may collide and where their

edges intersect/collide (the point of collision)

possibly a singularity is produced which releases such an enormous

amount of energy from the impact that a BIG BANG occurs

and a new universe is made in the multi universal bubble

structure (mat ?) and so the new universe expands, grows

and develops like ours did supposedly around 15 billion years ago.

 

Just like string theory, M theory is fascinating

and I realise there must be much more to add to this story

( wide open to debate).

 

DrRocket

 

Needs a puppy bed.

 

 

[granpa]

http://www.theonion.com/articles/nasa-baffled-by-failure-of-straw-shuttle,1997/

[ajb]

I don't know if it is obvious that M-theory has solutions that are of cosmological interest. M-theory cosmology is very much in its infancy.