Did our universe escape from a lab? Why isn't the US intel community investigagating? (Page 5/5) williegoat OCT 26, 09:06 PM Gee, our old LaSalle ran great. rinselberg OCT 26, 10:12 PM CLICK FOR FULL SIZE The full-sky image of the temperature fluctuations (shown as color differences) in the Cosmic Microwave Background, made from nine years of WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe) observations. These are the seeds of galaxies, from a time when the universe was under 400,000 years old. CREDIT: NASA. Some years ago, Harvard theoretical physicist and professor Lisa Randall pointed to a particular area within the Cosmic Microwave Background and speculated that it was evidence of the interaction between our universe and another universe. Not the coldest of the areas that stand out in the Cosmic Microwave Background, and not the largest of the areas that stand out, but something about this one particular area was puzzling to her. (I couldn't tell you where it is on this map.) That was mentioned in a new hour-long segment that I watched very recently on the Science Channel. Lisa Randall's "Multiverse" speculation. I really don't know where all that stands today, in terms of what other scientists think about it. In 2007, Lisa Randall was listed by Time Magazine as one of the world's 100 most influential people. She's the author of "Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs." A younger Lisa Randall. More about Lisa Randall at Marketplace, espeakers.