[The Next Web] Why some scientists believe the world is a giant bubble-bath filled with infinite universes

From where we’re sitting, the universe is a big, smooth expanse full of giant stars and planets. When we use the most powerful measurement tools we have, to zoom in as close as we possibly can in hopes of seeing what’s holding it all together, it still looks like a blank canvas. But, mathematically, this simply doesn’t make sense. Something must be missing. Some physicists believe that we’d find quantum foam – an infinite expanse of subatomic spacetime bubbles – if we could dial our cosmic microscopes in close enough. From a dozen or so feet up in the air,…

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