Researchers playing with a cloud of ultracold atoms uncovered behavior that bears a striking resemblance to the universe in microcosm. Their work, which forges new connections between atomic physics and the sudden expansion of the early universe, was published in Physical Review X and highlighted by Physics. In several sets of experiments, Eckel and his colleagues rapidly expanded the size of a doughnut-shaped cloud of atoms, taking snapshots during the process. The growth happens so fast that the cloud was left humming, and a related hum may have appeared on cosmic scales during the rapid expansion of the early universe - an epoch that cosmologists refer to as the period of inflation. [
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Patterns everywhere.
Similarities and analogies.
Repetitions.
Parallel lines.
Mirrors reflecting the cosmos.
Playing no role at all.
Except to reveal what already Is.
A world crying in silence…
That it is not real…
Within a similar world, which is…
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