Evidence from a new study by physicists at King’s College London has led researchers to come up with a new theory that claims the universe shouldn’t even exist.
Evidence from a new study by physicists at King’s College London has led researchers to come up with a new theory that claims the universe shouldn’t even exist.
After discovery of the previously theoretical Higgs boson particle, that is supposed to give all matter a certain mass, physicists were able to model the conditions of the universe just after the Big Bang.
Believed to have happened around 13 point 8 billion years ago, observations made by a telescope located at the South Pole indicate that cosmic inflation might be one explanation for how the universe formed.
But according to that model, the universe should have collapsed within microseconds of the Big Bang explosion.
Robert Hogan, a doctoral candidate in physics at King's College in London and co-author of the study, is quoted as saying: “We are here talking about it. That means we have to extend our theories to explain why this didn't happen. The generic expectation is that there must be some new physics that we haven't put in our theories yet, because we haven't been able to discover them.”
Another theory called supersymmetry attempts to explain these findings by suggesting that there are super partner particles that correlate to every known particle.
