Five years ago, I was reading an article in Scientific American (which I can no longer find), that was fascinating to me since I often contemplate the heavens and wonder what's out there.

The article described a theory that black holes — which suck in all light and matter around them and collapse into a massively heavy pinpoint — actually got to a density that then caused an explosion "out the back". The theory was that this explosion was a "big bang" that created a new universe, and the continued sucking in of light and matter from our universe continued to make that universe expand (similar to our own accelerating universe).

For many years I've been intrigued with Hugh Everett III's ridiculed concept of the many-worlds interpretation from which this theory of new universe creation sprang. His many-worlds theory claimed to resolve all the "paradoxes" of quantum theory since every possible outcome to every event defines or exists in its own "history" or "world." In layman's terms, this means that there is a very large, perhaps infinite, number of universes and that everything that could possibly happen in our universe (but doesn't) does happen in some other universe(s).

A bunch of crap? Everett's peers thought so and he was so ridiculed that he got his PhD, left physics, and became a defense analyst and consultant (and a multimillionaire so there's money in being bullied!).

Now comes word he may have been on to something since a study has determined that there are Unknown "Structures" Tugging at Our Universe.

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