Are we living in a universe or multiverse?

Are we living in a universe or multiverse?

The universe we live in may not be the only one out there. In fact, our universe could be just one of an infinite number of universes making up a “multiverse.” Though the concept may stretch credulity, there’s good physics behind it.

How can I live on my own universe?

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Do we live in spacetime?

“If you go by what we observe, we don’t live in space-time,” Smolin says. “We live in momentum space.” And just as space-time can be pictured as a coordinate system with time on one axis and space – its three dimensions condensed to one – on the other axis, the same is true of momentum space.

How long has the universe been around?

The universe is nearly 14 billion years old, our solar system is 4.6 billion years old, life on Earth has existed for maybe 3.8 billion years, and humans have been around for only a few hundred thousand years. In other words, the universe has existed roughly 56,000 times longer than our species has.

Are We in space from our perspective?

Well that would mean the space itself would be “shoved” outward in all directions from our perspective, from within the same space. But if objects don’t actually occupy space, and push space out of the way to exist, we’re not actually “in” space really. Space is between us, from our perspective. But that perspective is fictitious.

Does the universe contain all the energy and matter?

The universe contains all the energy and matter there is. Much of the observable matter in the universe takes the form of individual atoms of hydrogen, which is the simplest atomic element, made of only a proton and an electron (if the atom also contains a neutron, it is instead called deuterium). Two or more atoms sharing electrons is a molecule.

Are Earth and the Moon part of the universe?

Earth and the Moon are part of the universe, as are the other planets and their many dozens of moons. Along with asteroids and comets, the planets orbit the Sun. The Sun is one among hundreds of billions of stars in the Milky Way galaxy, and most of those stars have their own planets, known as exoplanets.