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Everything in the known universe is said to be racing toward themassive clumps of matter at more than 2 million miles (3.2 millionkilometers) an hour—a movement the researchers have dubbed dark flow.
The presence of the extra-universal matter suggests that ouruniverse is part of something bigger—a multiverse—and that whatever isout there is very different from the universe we know, according tostudy leader Alexander Kashlinsky, an astrophysicist at NASA's GoddardSpace Flight Center in Maryland.
The theory could rewrite the laws of physics. Current modelssay the known, or visible, universe—which extends as far as light couldhave traveled since the big bang—is essentially the same as the rest of space-time (the three dimensions of space plus time).
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081105-dark-flow.html
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It's not enough that the universe is as incomprehensibly big as it already is, oh no! Now they found out that that our universe is probably just as tiny a meaningless speck in a bigger multiverse as our planet is in it.
It just make us even smaller and more insignificant than we already are. And that just sucks. -_-
Now that we know we are basicly irrelevant to the uni(multi)verse, then that must give us bigger "proof" to find out, we're not the only ones on this... uni(multi)verse. :-S
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