Thanks to dark energy, the universe may have grown from the ashes of a previous one (Image: Stock.xchng)
OUR universe may have arisen from seeds preserved in a universe that existed before the big bang – all thanks to dark energy.
One of the models put forward to explain how the universe began proposes that it is just the latest phase in a never-ending cycle. Proposed in 2002 by Paul Steinhardt of Princeton University and Neil Turok from the University of Cambridge, the model argues that our universe exists on a 3D region called a “brane” separated from similar…
