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Aliens may have created the universe |
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286 votes,
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The universe may have been created by intelligent beings living in another universe, according to a distinguished cosmologist.
Professor Edward Harrison of the University of Massachusetts makes the suggestion to explain why our universe is so precisely suited to the evolution of life.
"We are beginning to see how universes can be created," Professor Harrison says. "A small amount of matter - roughly ten kilogrammes - at very high energy is forged into a black hole. Under the correct conditions, the interior of the black hole inflates into a new universe that endures for billions of years, spans billions of light years and contains billions of galaxies."
'If we can already see in principle how universes are created, then surely our descendants will have the technology to create them'
At most, he argues, human intelligence is only one million years old. "If we can already see in principle how universes are created, then surely our descendants in the far future will have the technology to design and create them."
Among these offspring universes, Professor Harrison argues, some are more fit than others for originating and nurturing life to an advanced level of intelligence. The most fit are the most reproductive; the least fit are lifeless and unproductive. Thus we have a process of 'natural selection'.
Comment by Merlyn Albery
If aliens, rather than God, created the universe, who created the aliens?
Summarised from an article by Nigel Hawkes, entitled 'Aliens may have created universe, says US scientist' in The Times (Aug 21st '95).
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