The Possible Evidence of the Multiverse

A look into the mysterious and highly debated Cold Spot

The universe began with a violent and striking explosion, its body dense and foggy orange as the plasma bubbled with an immense amount of heat. In this bright sea that was the beginning of everything, protons and electrons came into contact to create a blinding glow very different from the dark skies we see today. It wasn’t until 380,000 years later that the first atoms began to form in the cooler temperatures, allowing for the birth of hydrogen and helium which would eventually give way to stars, the beautiful points of light in the universe where carbon, oxygen, and iron are made. That is, looking back at the broiling, glaring beginning of it all, things were very different from the cooler and tamer space where we live today. But it’s the energy from this chaotic time just a few hundred thousand years after the Big Bang that could be pointing us to something even more extraordinary.

Mapped out, the energy is called the CMB or the Cosmic Microwave Background. This radiation is quite uniform, usually varying no more than 20 microkelvin on any point on the map. While it was a scorching 3,000 degrees Kelvin when atoms first formed, over 13 billion years of expansion later have left it closer to 2.725 degrees above absolute zero (-454 degrees Fahrenheit or -270…