2023-08-02 04:00:09
In the earliest moments of the Universe, cataclysmic events shaped the cosmos, giving rise to a myriad of energetic structures, among them “Bubbletrons”.
The Hubble telescope captures a huge bubble of gas in space (Illustrative image, it is not a Bubbletron).
Credits: NASA Goddard
The expansion of the Universe has allowed the fragmentation of the fundamental forces of nature. Within this fragmentation, large bubbles might have appeared and collided, generating energies far exceeding those of our most advanced particle accelerators. These phenomenal energies would have flooded the Universe with dark matter particles (In astrophysics, dark matter (or dark matter), translation from English…), black micro-holes and much more. The ultra-energetic structures of the nascent Universe are called “Bubbletrons”.
Physicists strongly suspect that the four fundamental forces of nature – electromagnetism, strong interaction (An interaction is an exchange of information, affects, or energy between two agents within…) weak interaction and gravity (Gravitation is one of the four fundamental interactions of physics.) – coalesce into a single unified force at very high energies. However, the energies sufficient to achieve this were only present in the Universe less than a second (Second is the feminine of the adjective second, which comes immediately following the first or which…) following the Big Bang ( The Big Bang is the dense and hot period that the universe experienced a while ago…). As the Universe cooled and grew, the forces separated from each other during violent phase transition phenomena (In physics, a phase transition is a transformation of the system under study…).
The Universe might have been briefly filled with giant bubbles. Outside these bubbles, the unified forces remained. But inside the bubbles, the cosmos would have been completely different, with forces separate from each other. These bubbles would eventually grow and coalesce, completely transforming the Universe into the reality we know today.
These bubbles would have carried huge amounts of energy. The expanding edges of bubbles might accelerate surrounding particles to incredibly high speeds. These particles colliding with other particles would have released a rain of energy and new particles.
Research suggests that these “Bubbletrons” would have reached the energies necessary to trigger the formation of hypothetical black matter particles. They might also have been factories for much more exotic objects, such as microscopic black holes which immediately evaporated, adding their energy to the mixture (A mixture is an association of two or more solid, liquid or gaseous substances…) .
The expansion and collision of the “Bubbletrons” would have created a hustle and bustle of gravitational waves. These gravitational waves would have made the whole Universe ring like a gigantic bell and would persist in the cosmos even today, billions of years later.
Recent research indicates that the Universe is bathed in a background noise of gravitational waves. Some of them might be relics of processes that took place in the early Universe, such as the rise and fall of the “Bubbletrons”. The researchers pointed out that future analysis with pulsar synchronization networks, as well as future gravitational wave detectors like LISA and the telescope (A telescope, (from the Greek tele meaning “far” and skopein meaning… ) Einstein, might be able to find direct evidence for the significant, but short-lived, existence of “Bubbletrons”.
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