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Laura Mersini-Houghton (née Mersini) is an Albanian cosmologist and theoretical physicist, and associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a proponent of the multiverse theory which holds that our universe is one of many. She argued that anomalies in the current structure of the universe are best explained as the gravitational tug exerted by other universes. Some of the above references credit Mersini-Houghton as the first who proposed such tug might be at work. However that is incorrect since the tug by another universe was proposed earlier by others, for instance Mensur Omerbashich: "In case of our Universe, it is to it neighboring (about it orbiting) Universe that largely masks the tidal influences of the rest of the Hyperverse onto our Universe".

Education

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Mersini-Houghton received her B.S. degree from the University of Tirana, Albania, and her M.Sc. from the University of Maryland. She was awarded a Ph.D. in 2000 by the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. After earning her doctorate, Mersini-Houghton was a postdoctoral fellow at the Italian Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa from 2000 to 2002. In 2002 she had a postdoctoral fellowship for two years at Syracuse University. She accepted a job as faculty at University of North Carolina, and in January 2004, she started as assistant professor of theoretical physics and cosmology at UNC, and was granted tenure in 2008.

Research

On October 11, 2010, Laura Mersini-Houghton appeared in a BBC programme What Happened Before the Big Bang (along with Michio Kaku, Neil Turok, Andrei Linde, Roger Penrose, Lee Smolin, and other notable cosmologists and physicists) where she propounded her theory of the universe as a wave function on the landscape multiverse. Mersini-Houghton's work on multiverse theory is discussed in the epilogue of a recently published biography of Hugh Everett III.

External Links

• Meet Laura Mersini-Houghton - An interview with Mersini-Houghton on North Carolina Public Radio

References

1. Catchpole, Heather (November 24, 2009). "Weird data suggests something big beyond the edge of the universe". Cosmos (magazine). Retrieved July 27, 2014.
2. Moon, Timur (May 19, 2013). "Planck Space Data Yields Evidence of Universes Beyond Our Own". International Business Times. Retrieved July 27, 2014.
3. MacIsaac, Tara (January 23, 2014). "Colossal 'Hole' in Space Could Be Link to Universe Beyond Our Own". The Epoch Times. Retrieved July 27, 2014.
4. Chown, Marcus (November 24, 2007). "The void: Imprint of another universe?". New Scientist. Retrieved July 27, 2014.
5. Maynard, James (May 28, 2013). "Other universes detected in oldest light in the Cosmos?". iTech Post. Retrieved July 27, 2014.
6. Taylor, Rosie (May 19, 2013). "Is our universe merely one of billions? Evidence of the existence of 'multiverse' revealed for the first time by cosmic map". Daily Mail. Retrieved July 27, 2014.
7. Cauchi, Stephen (December 09, 2007). "Into the void: a glimpse of our tiny place in the scheme of things". The Age. Retrieved July 27, 2014. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
8. Segal, Michael (October 3, 2013). "Ingenious: Laura Mersini-Houghton: The Universe Chaser". Nautilus. Retrieved July 27, 2014.
9. ^ Hill, Joshua (December 3, 2007). "The Great Nothing may be something..." Canada Free Press. Retrieved July 27, 2014. "...Mersini-Houghton has put forward a theory that has stunned the wider community..."
10. Leake, Jonathan (May 19, 2013). "Cosmic map reveals first evidence of other universes". The Sunday Times. Retrieved July 27, 2014.
11. The News (March 19, 2014). "Could Big Bang ripples prove the existence of a PARALLEL universe? Gravitational wave discovery paves the way for the 'multiverse'". National Headlines. Retrieved July 27, 2014.
12. Omerbashich, M. (2006) Springtide-induced magnification of Earth mantle resonance causes tectonics and conceals universality of physics at all scales, arxiv.org. Published: 20 August, 2006.
13. Is Our Universe Tidally Engaged With Another Universe? Alan Gray, Newsblaze. Published: 22 December, 2012.
14. "Two Programmes - Horizon, 2010-2011, What Happened Before the Big Bang?". BBC. Retrieved 2011-01-02.
15. "The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett III" by Peter Byrne,ISBN 978-0-19-955227-6

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