Ranga-Ram Chary, U.S. Planck Data Center's projectmanager in California, recently discovered a"mysterious glow" by mapping the CosmicMicrowave Background, otherwise known as the lightthat was left over from a few hundred thousandyears after the Big Bang.
比來，美國加州普朗克數據中間的項目司理Ranga-RamChary，在繪制宇宙微波配景輻射圖時發明了一束“秘密光亮”，被以為是宇宙大爆炸幾十萬年後遺留的光芒。
Ordinarily, Chary would have found nothing "exceptnoise." But the spots of light were 4,500 timesbrighter than they should have been.
平日，Chary的發明除噪音沒有其余，但這一束光的亮度比擬以前的淩駕4500多倍。
Chary concluded that the glow could represent matter from another universe "leaking" orcolliding into ours. This would validate the hypothesis that our universe is merely "a regionwithin an eternally inflating super-region," said Chary in an Astrophysical Journal studypublished in September.
Chary以為這束光代表著另外一個宇宙的物資“泄漏”或是突入到了咱們地點的宇宙，他在9月份揭櫫《天文物理期刊》中稱這一發明證明了以前的假如，即咱們地點的宇宙空間存在於一個“賡續膨脹的超等大空間”當中。
Cosmologists have speculated about multiple universes for years, but have thus far beenunable to prove their existence. Chary's research is therefore significant because it could lendcredence to the theory that cosmic inflation -- which is the notion that the universe beganinflating right after the Big Bang -- led to multiple universes.
多年來宇宙學家一向在推想多重宇宙的存在，但至今都沒法證明。是以Chary的研討意義龐大，由於其證明了宇宙膨脹說，即宇宙在大爆炸以後開端賡續膨脹，終極致使多重宇宙的發生。
However, this type of claim would "require a very high burden of proof," Chary wrote. There's a30 percent chance that the glow is nothing out of the ordinary.
但是Chary還寫道，這類論斷“須要異常確實的證據”，該光束是通俗光芒的概率仍舊有30%。
Other scientists share this skepticism. Alexander Vilenkin, director of Tufts University'sInstitute of Cosmology, doesn't see how "this signal can be explained by a collision withanother bubble universe." Any collisions must have been "more like little nudges," Vilenkinadded. "But a collision that would greatly enhance the density of protons seems to require amuch more violent encounter."
另一些科學家對此持疑惑立場，塔夫斯大學宇宙學研討所主任Alexander Vilenkin以為，這束光芒“沒法說明為宇宙碰撞的線索”。他說：“任何碰撞都更像是渺小的震撼，但要使碰撞可以或許極大的增長質子密度，則須要更猛烈的損壞力。”
"The supposed observations of a giant void and an apparently cold spot in the cosmicbackground radiation have so many types of potential explanations," said Jay Pasachoff, chairof the astronomy department at Williams College. He maintains that it's too premature to citean alternate universe as the explanation.
威廉姆斯學院天文系主任Jay Pasachoff稱：“在宇宙配景輻命中視察到的巨洞和相似的冰點都存在多種情勢的說明。”他誇大援用平行宇宙來說明這一發明還為時過早。
"But it could also be something new and unexpected," Vilenkin added.
Vilenkin末了說道：“但是，這束光芒也有多是新的未知事物。”
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