Who is to blame for the fact that we were born? Or perhaps the whole universe? If you believe in God, you have your answer. But we are scientific point of view and scientific method. Some curious studies suggest the possible existence of higher beings who are responsible for our existence.
The universe shouldn't be
According to some studies, the universe shouldn't have existed for more than one second. For example, the Big Bang was supposed to produce the same amount of matter and antimatter, which would be mutually exclusive. Instead, a little more matter was produced from which the entire observable universe was formed. We cannot fully explain this.
In another theory, the universe is in the Higgs field, which gives the particles their mass. A large energy field does not allow our Universe to fall into an abyss, into a deeper field, in which the Universe could not exist.
However, if the standard model of physics is correct, the rapid expansion of the universe immediately after the Big Bang should have pushed it into that chasm. It had to destroy the universe before that second would have passed.
The improbability of life on Earth is also crazy. Galaxies could not exist without the right mix of matter, dark matter and dark energy. Then the Earth must be at the correct distance from the Sun. A planet the size of Jupiter must have attracted a bunch of asteroids and comets, or the surface of the Earth would be too uninhabitable.
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So is life incredibly lucky, or has the universe helped it in some way?
Seed of life?
According to Francis Crick's directed panspermia theory, life originated elsewhere and was sent to Earth by evolved beings. Prior to this, panspermia theories claimed that life came to our planet on an asteroid or comet.
In July 2013, astrobiologist Milton Wainwright announced that he had discovered the real "seed of life." Launching a meteorological probe over England, he caught a hair-wide metal ball. The titanium and vanadium shell contained biological mucus. Obviously, many scientists were skeptical about Wainwright's claims. But how was it really?
The search for alien life in biology
In our genes, only 3% are represented by the 22,000 genes of the human genome. The other 97% is "junk DNA", which may contain a coded message or a "designer tag" indicating whether life exists elsewhere or was created by a higher being.
In 2013, two Kazakh scientists said they found an ordered sequence of symbolic language in our junk DNA that could not have arisen naturally. However, many critics have rejected their "alien" find in biology.
Geneticist Francis Collins in his book "The Language of God" wrote that DNA is the alphabet of God, which wrote the book of life.
Cosmic rays
In 2003, the philosopher Nick Bostrom stated that the universe could be a computer simulation, and recently Elon Musk also adopted this theory. If so, then a higher being or being should be responsible for the simulation. The universe must also be limited because all computers have limitations.
Some scientists believe that we can detect this computer simulation if we find the limits of the universe. To test this, German researchers built lattice simulators of the universe in a quantum computer.
Their focus was on cosmic rays, which are fragments of atoms born outside our solar system. Cosmic rays are of limited power and decay over time.
Upon reaching Earth, all of these rays have the same amount of energy, a maximum of 10 electron volts. This suggests that all cosmic rays have the same starting points - like the boundaries of a simulated lattice on a quantum computer.
Spreading life
In 2015, a study was conducted at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, which suggested that life should have spread through panspermia, moving from star to star in clusters and "sticking together like bubbles in a kettle of boiling water." This model also shows that life can spread like an epidemic.
Scientists have tested two possible ways of bringing life to Earth: through asteroids and through intelligent beings. As a result, both of these options were possible and would follow the same pattern. And if the research is correct, life exists throughout the galaxy.
Physical constants
According to theoretical physicist John Barrow, we can tell whether the universe is an imitation by discovering errors or flaws in it. Barrow believes that even an advanced civilization does not know all the laws of nature thoroughly.
This means that there should be noticeable failures in the "matrix", for example, changes in physical constants. Physical constants are physical properties like the speed of light - which are the same everywhere and always.
In 2001, Australian researchers found evidence that the speed of light has been slowing down over the past billion years, despite the fact that this is contrary to general relativity. Astronomer John Webb discovered that the light from a quasar absorbed the wrong type of photons during its 12 billion year journey to Earth.
This could only happen if the speed of light or the charge of an electron were changed; both are physical constants. Scientists would never agree to that.
On the other hand, nobody knows why the physical constants remain constant. But this constancy plays an important role in the existence of our universe. Some scientists suspect that physical constants may indicate that our world was “fine tuned” for life to exist.
Gödel's ontological proof
In the 1940s, physicist Kurt Gödel tried to prove the existence of God with the mathematical proof below. It is based on Anselm of Canterbury's argument:
1. There is a supreme being called God, and nothing higher than God can be imagined.
2. God exists as an idea in consciousness.
3. All other things being equal, a being that exists in consciousness and reality is better than a being that exists only in consciousness.
4. Therefore, if God exists only in consciousness, perhaps we can imagine a being more powerful than God.
5. However, this contradicts the argument that nothing can be conceived above God.
6. Therefore, God exists.
Using modal logic and parallel universes, Gödel stated that an omnipotent being exists if it exists in at least one parallel universe. Since there are an infinite number of universes with an infinite number of possibilities, in one of the universe there will be a being so powerful that it can be considered an almighty God. Therefore, God exists.
In 2013, two mathematicians concluded that Gödel's equations were correct. But this theorem does not prove the existence of God, but only the possibility that, based on modal logic, an omnipotent being can exist.
Reality doesn't exist until you look at it
A video game creates itself when you look into a specific area. Otherwise, it does not exist. Reality can follow a similar principle: exist only when you look at it.
This mysterious phenomenon originates from quantum mechanics. Subatomic objects are usually waves or particles. Sometimes both. Some examples include light and objects with a mass close to that of an electron.
Until these objects are observable, they exist in a dual state. But when they are measured, the objects "decide" to become a wave or a solid object. This principle is at the heart of everything we deal with. Agree, not much different from the artificial world of a video game.
Holographic principle
In 1997, theoretical physicist Juan Maldacena suggested that our universe is a two-dimensional hologram - completely flat - that we perceive in three dimensions. Tiny strings - gravitons - vibrate and create this holographic universe. If his theory is correct, it will help sort out a number of differences between quantum mechanics and Einstein's theory of gravity.
Several studies have shown that a two-dimensional universe is possible. Japanese researchers calculated the internal energy of a black hole, the position of the event horizon, and other properties in a three-dimensional world and then calculated the same in a two-dimensional world without gravity. The calculations matched. Another model showed that the universe is two-dimensional if spacetime is flat.
Scientists at Fermi Lab are using a giant laser to search for "holographic noise" that would indicate "buffering" in space. If a three-dimensional holographic universe, built on a two-dimensional system of moving lines (like lines of code), lags, this will be a strong argument in favor of modeling the universe.
Space code
According to theoretical physicist Sylvester James Gates, there is compelling evidence that we are living in a simulation. While working on the adinkra superstring equations (symbols used in supersymmetry algebra), Gates discovered a code created by mathematician Richard Hamming. And I wondered if this basic coding could somehow be related to the work of the universe.
Gates says that “the unexpected connection suggests that these codes may be widespread in nature and perhaps embedded in the very core of reality. If so, then we may have a lot in common with films like The Matrix, which depict a world where the experience of every human being is a product of virtual reality generated by a computer network."
ILYA KHEL