In June of 1998, Whitley Strieber found himself in a conversation with a man he has come to call the Master of the Key. During this conversation, recorded in Whitley’s book, The Key, the Master said, “There are more galaxies in your universe than there are stars in your galaxy, and more universes in the firmament than there are galaxies in your universe.” At the time, the idea that there is only one universe was scientific bedrock, but now that belief is being challenged by one of the most extraordinary discoveries in the history of science. True to the Master of the Key’s statement, it appears that another whole universe has been found.
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We recently talked about time travel and parallel universes on Dreamland with Fred Alan Wolf. Japanese scientists report that they think it will soon be possible to create new, “baby universes” inside their labs. What will happen to these universes over time is anybody’s guess, because, once they are created, there will no longer be any way to detect them. Would they eventually expand into whole and complete universes like our own? It’s possible, Which leads to the question, where did WE come from?
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Scientists now know that the universe is not infinite and that space is curved in on itself in the shape of a dodecahedron. Interestingly enough, the ancient Greeks, including Plato, thought the universe was made up of this geometrical shape, and the artist Leonardo da Vinci, who was the recipient of much ancient knowledge, studied these shapes as well.
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Scientists have assumed our universe is young, but now they’re saying it’s middle aged and will stop expanding and start collapsing fairly soon. Of course, “soon” in astronomical terms means billions of years in the future. Right now, a mysterious “dark energy” is pushing the universe apart, but when this force loses its power, the cosmos will collapse.
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