We ’ve come a foresightful direction since Galileo and unconditional - Earth evangelist ( well , sort of ) , but we ’re still light - years away from understanding what in the actual hell is bechance throughout the great beyond . Sure , the Hubble Space Telescope and Neil deGrasse Tyson have done wonders to avail us enfold our heads around some of the wildest discoveries out there , but that ’s all nestling ’s manoeuvre when you hesitate to consider these exceptionally crazy theories that scientists have about place .
There are an infinite number of other universes
We care to cogitate that the universe we live in istheuniverse , but actually , it may not be all that particular . In fact , it might be among an innumerous telephone number of others . I wo n’t hold you with the confusing eminent - level physics ( which you ’d call for a PhD to unpack anyway ) , but the gist is this : the Big Bang over 13 billion years agowas too potent to have just make our own exponentially expanding universe . Rather , some astrophysicist argue , it spur a whole crew ofother unambiguously determine and radically dissimilar universes , and we all coexist severally , divide by distance much smashing than the 92 billion - light - year breadth of our own universe itself .
There is a hidden ninth planet in our solar system
Ever since Pluto was view as too dwarfy to be a legit planet and booted out , it ’s hard not to feel a short disappointed by our solar system . After all , nine is better than eight . But there is still hope that we ’ll be formally nine planets strong again , as there ’s increase grounds to suggestthere ’s a ninth Neptune - sized planet(aka Planet X ) lurk far behind Pluto in an exceedingly elliptical orbit that brings it around the sunshine only once every 15,000 years .
We are living in a giant computer simulation created by super-advanced aliens
As many scientists have theorized , if stranger do indeed live , odds are they ’re wildly more technologically advanced and maybe even millions of years before of us . base on that premiss , some scientists and philosopher have speculatedthat we in reality live in a reality created by them , as some sort of high-flown ancestral simulation game , where not onlythe cosmos around us is simulated , but human consciousness itself is as well . Just one more thing to think about when you ’re test to fall asleep tonight .
The universe will end by slowly freezing solid
There areplenty of possibility about how the universe might end , but one of the most democratic among scientists is calledthe Big Freeze or Big Chill . fundamentally , the theory suggests that as the creation slows its elaboration , it will slowly cool down to a point where entropy sets in , planets and star shrink and die , and it no longer sustains life sentence of any kind . True , space is already mad cold , but we ’re talking absolute zero and zero igniter . No motivation to cash out your 401 special K and loot your manner through Walmart , though – if this happensit wo n’t be for one million million million of years .
Or by ripping itself apart
While the Big Freeze is by and large consider the most likely scenario , scientist also speculate about the possibleness of the universe ripping apart . The theory hinges around how coloured energy – the energy that ’s always agitate our universe outward – behaves . If it is n’t view as constant , but is increasing over time instead , then it could potentially lead to a domino ripping consequence that begins bytearing intact galaxies apart , and eventually ripping individual atom .
The universe is a lopsided mess
For old age , cosmologists believed that our universe was isotropic , or roughly exchangeable in all steering ( like the above image ) . However , some more recent findings indicate that for reason strange to us ( and which can both explicate andcall into question some of our most basic scientific principles ) , the universe isactually lopsidedin particular areas .
We are all living in an elaborate hologram
Although it sounds like a theory you ’d fake up on a particularly celebratory 4/20 , there aresome very legitimate astrophysicist who believethere is merit to the whimsy that our entire three - dimensional universe is really just a monumental expulsion of a two - dimensional image . It ’s face less and less likely that we ’ll be able toprove the possibility , but that wo n’t hold back a specialUS Department of Energy labfrom testing it .
Joe McGauleyis a senior writer for Thrillist and in fact not a theoretic physicist .
Wikimedia/The International Astronomical Union/Martin Kornmesser
Wikimedia/Friendlystar
Wikimedia/Nagualdesign
Flickr/Hubble Heritage
Wikimedia/LuisArmandoRasteletti
