Our understanding of the origins of our universe may need to be updated.
According to a new paper published this week in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the universe may have started with a big bounce.
The result of space-time inflating into existence may not have been the birth of the universe.
"Inflation was thought to explain some of the challenges of the hot Big bang model," said the first author, an astronomer at the University of Cambridge. The origin of structure in our universe is explained by quantum fluctuations.
Even though we can't rule out individual inflationary models, there is still a chance we can prove the theory wrong.
Some of the remnants from the earliest stages of the universe should be probed deeper into the Cosmic Microwave Background, according to the paper.
The results immediately sounded a little suspect to the researchers, since the European Space Agency's Planck spacecraft began measuring the CMB back in 2013
The astronomer who worked on the paper said that the results from the satellite were held up as proof of inflation. Some of us argued that the results may be different.
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The edge of the observable universe is at a distance that any signal could have traveled at the speed of light. The edge of the universe is now 46.5 billion light years away.
"The spherical volume within this boundary is like an archaeological dig centered on us, the deeper we probe into it, the earlier is the layer of Cosmic History that we uncover, all the way back to the Big Bang which represents our ultimate horizon," he said. It is not known what lies beyond the horizon.
We need to dig deeper to understand the nature of the universe after it was created.
We wouldn't have a good idea of what would come before it.
We don't have a predictive theory of quantum gravity, which is needed for a proper understanding of what happened before that.
The researchers are not deterred by that reality. They think we should be looking for the graviton background, which is made up of hypothetical elementary particles that could explain some of the mysteries of the universe.
The creation of the universe is believed to have created the CGB. The CGB would have been degraded to the point of no longer being seen.
If the researchers were to detect it, they could rule out the Big bang as a theory.
It would take an extremely sophisticated technology that isn't yet available to detect the CGB.
Cosmic inflation may be ruled out. The University of Cambridge is located in Cambridge, England.
The data of the JWST is so amazing, even those who built it are questioning previous science.
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