British cosmologist Martin Rees said that the modern scientific picture of the world may be on the verge of revolution. The scientist connected this with his confidence in the validity of the theory of multiple big bangs. As reported by The Telegraph, Rees spoke about it at the Literary Festival in Hay-on-Wye (Great Britain).
“Many people believe that our Big Bang was not the only one and there is a whole ensemble of big bangs, a real archipelago of big bangs,” said the British cosmologist. Rees noted that the laws of nature are universal in the human-observable universe, but "if physical reality exists on a much larger scale, then perhaps there are areas where the laws differ from ours."
The scientist compared the new revolution with a coup, which made a transition from the geocentric (where the Earth is located in the center) system of the world to the heliocentric (the star is in the center). This happened in the 16th century and is associated with the name of Nicolaus Copernicus.
The concept of the multiverse that Rees was talking about implies the existence of many worlds in which the universe, described by an observable set of parameters, is one of many possibilities. The birth of each of the universes occurs as a result of a big bang and is described by cosmological bubbles. Initially, such a description is associated with a problem from statistical physics about the nucleation of bubbles of a new phase, in which their dynamics and interaction with each other are considered.
According to the most popular theory, the universe originated 14.3 billion years ago as a result of the Big Bang. This led to the emergence of the four fundamental interactions observed today, elementary particles and their aggregates (atoms, molecules, planets, stars and galaxies).