Top Astronomer Believes Multiverse Theory May Be Correct And That We Are ‘Just One Patch Of Space And Time’

Dr. Rees has described how there have been three huge scientific discoveries through the ages that have changed the world as we know it completely for humans. The first of these, he believes, was the discovery that Earth is not the center of the universe and that we and all other planets orbit the sun.

The second discovery was one which showed us that our galaxy is teeming with planets, and the third is that in the observable universe there are also many, many galaxies. Dr. Rees feels that the next major scientific discovery could very well be conclusive proof that the multiverse theory is actually right and that we are only one of many other universes that are scattered around us and unknown as of yet, according to Scientific American.

“If we’re in a multiverse, it would imply a fourth and grandest Copernican revolution; we’ve had the Copernican revolution itself, then the realization that there are billions of planetary systems in our galaxy; then that there are billions of galaxies in our observable universe. But now that’s not all. The entire panorama that astronomers can observe could be a tiny part of the aftermath of ‘our’ big bang, which is itself just one bang among a perhaps-infinite ensemble.”

To detect these parallel universes, it is thought that gravitational waves may work to help find these other worlds, according to Gustavo Lucena Gómez at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, Germany.

“If there are extra dimensions in the universe, then gravitational waves can walk along any dimension, even the extra dimensions.”

While Dr. Rees has admitted of the multiverse theory that “it may be true — though whether we’ll ever be sure of this is unclear,” it is certainly hoped by scientists everywhere that one day it may be if it is correct.