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Did dark energy give us our cosmos?

By Jessica Griggs

14 January 2009

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Thanks to dark energy, the universe may have grown from the ashes of a previous one

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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 . Proposed in 2002 by 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…

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