THE UNIVERSE HAS THE VISCOSITY OF CHOCOLATE SYRUP, SAY SCIENTISTS - This could help understand the Big Bang

How the gooey universe could shed light on the Big Bang

 

By Amir Aczel, Discovery Magazine

 

Cosmologists have always asked: What does the universe resemble? The surprising answer, obtained from calculations of the density of stars, planets, gas clouds, and empty space, is that the cosmos has the viscosity of chocolate syrup. 

 

The Big Bang is believed to have been a quantum event. Because the entire universe was somehow “condensed” into a space the size of a tiny particle, quantum mechanics had to have played a powerful role in its evolution through the Big Bang. 

 

The new discovery of gravitational waves — the biggest news in cosmology this century — focuses fresh attention on a field in which recent progress has otherwise been slow. Cosmologists are now attempting to explore novel ways of trying to understand what happened in the Big Bang, and what, if anything, caused the gargantuan explosion believed to have launched our universe on its way. To do so they’ve turned their attention to areas of physics far removed from outer space: hydrology and turbulence. The idea is pretty clever: to view the universe as an ocean.

 
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http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2014/04/09/how-the-gooey-universe-could-shed-light-on-the-big-bang/

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