Metamaterials May Provide a Looking Glass Into Worlds w/Fundamentally Different Physics

My physics knowledge is fairly basic, so I don't understand all of this; however, this sounds like an interesting experiment and seemed worthy of sharing with you all.

Rather than using substances known as metamaterials to hide objects in plain sight, some scientists instead want to use the strange materials to build windows into worlds with fundamentally different physics. Peering in may reveal how other universes operate and how this universe could have begun.

In the materials that Smolyaninov dreams of creating, photons can occupy an infinite number of quantum states. Some type of change, in temperature perhaps, could make the unusual material — if constructed just right — revert to a state in which photons can’t occupy so many positions. When this transformation happens, the particles have to be emitted, like a bunch of kids getting kicked out of a game of musical chairs all at once. Those emitted photons would create a flash of light.

“It looks like a Big Bang situation,” Smolyaninov says. Such a flash could emulate the birth of the universe.

SOURCE: sciencenews.org...

Enjoy!

It will take Eternity to understand it all. But verily believe with all of thy Holy faith, surely you shall. As our beloved Creator, within whom thou shall become, grant's thee all, the ONE.

so... kinda like the window that Walter Bishop had to spy on an alternate universe in the tv show fringe?