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 The Black Hole That Birthed the Big Bang

Is the big bang, and all that came from it, a holographic mirage from another dimension?

Jul 15, 2014 |By Niayesh Afshordi, Robert B. Mann and Razieh Pourhasan

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In Brief

• Cosmologists have detailed a remarkably accurate description of the history of the universe. But a few profound questions seem to defy all attempts at understanding.
• One of these mysteries is the nature of the big bang itself—the sudden, violent origin of our universe from a point of infinite density.
• The authors have developed ideas that would explain how the big bang came to be. They imagine that it emerged as a consequence of the formation of a black hole in a higher-dimensional universe. This theory provides answers to a number of difficult questions. It could also be tested.