Stephen Hawking claims victory in a bet he had placed with a fellow scientist Neil Turok. When Adhiraaj Singh asked me very recently why does the Universe exists? I answered to decipher itself. We the stardust from the throes of dead stars becoming sentient enough to reach our origins of birth is the purpose of our existence. When we look at the distant galaxies, we actually travel back in time and see things happening when our constituent stardust was still burning in the core of a dead star. The end product watching making of its own constituent dust. Stephen Hawking has now claimed victory in a bet he had placed with a fellow scientist Neil Turok, director of the Perimeter Institute in Canada, over the discovery of primordial gravitational waves, ripples in the structure of space-time from the birth of the universe. Hawking said the discovery of gravitational waves, disproves Turoks theory that the universe cycles endlessly from one big bang to another. And this is actually what I meant when I replied to Adhiraaj Singh we as Star dust becoming sentient and betting like Hawking with confidence about what happened in the the trillionth trillionth of the first sec of its birth after The Big Bang - the universe went through a period of extremely rapid expansion. The detection, yet to be published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, was announced by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and comes from the Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization 2 experiment telescope at the South Pole. The discovery would count as the strongest evidence yet for cosmic inflation, a theory which says that the universe went through a period of extremely rapid expansion soon after the big bang. The theory explains why the universe looks almost the same in every direction. That is why we are such a unique self aware evolution of star dust. These gravitational waves could help unite general relativity and quantum mechanics to reveal a theory of everything - the minuscule ripples in space-time are the last prediction of Albert Einsteins 1916 general theory of relativity to be verified. If the discovery is confirmed, it will almost certainly lead to a Nobel Prize. P.S. On the bet: Turok is not ready to concede just yet. It is another confirmation of inflation, Hawking told the Today programme. It also means I win a bet with Neil Turok, director of the Perimeter Institute in Canada, for cyclic universe theory predicts no gravitational waves from the early universe. Turok is not ready to concede just yet. He told the programme that the bet rested on results from the European Space Agencys Planck space telescope, which last year failed to spot any signs of gravitational waves. In 2001, I gave a talk proposing a new theory of the big bang according to which the big bang was just the latest in an infinite series of big bangs, and the universe would be a cyclic universe, Turok said. Stephen, in typical fashion, at the end of a talk, said I bet you that the Planck satellite will discover the gravitational wave signal of inflation, which would immediately disprove your theory, because our prediction from our theory was that there would be no gravitational wave signal. So, of course, the Planck satellite flew, and last year announced its results, and there was no gravitational wave signal, so thus far, Im winning the bet, he added.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 00:41:17 +0000
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