Metamaterials used to mimic the Big Crunch
Friday, July 29, 2011 - 07:00
in Physics & Chemistry
Spacetime analogs is an emerging field of physics in which scientists investigate systems having mathematical links with general relativity, and test their theories about the early behavior of the universe. The latest in a series of such experiments is one that uses spacetime analogs to model the end of time theory, dubbed the Big Crunch, at which the universe is predicted to contract and eventually collapse into a black hole.