Looking around us from our near edge of the universe do we see differing areas of blankness, from fullness at the centre to emptiness to 180 degrees away (except for the stars further out, and nutrinos we must ’see’), as we look further out into where we will go in space?

Surely one can only detect a significant absence by the context of significant presence. As for the absence in question (the unit of space from elsewhere): how does one determine its origins and its intent? and also its size and contents?

Are we are discussing another and empty universe? and if so then why just one?

What of the other dimensions in our universe? some of which are millies of millimetres in width and even in length? Might these be present and congromerating en mass in our universe’s outer void somewhere.

Questions: the leading-edge of science.

I am just a poet.

To be fair, I don’t believe the scientists interviewed for this New Scientist article are arguing that our universe is currently being devoured or “eaten away” by a parallel universe. They make it very clear in the article that they think the void is the result of an interaction that occurred BEFORE inflation took place 13.7 billion years ago, when our universe and the other ones were only quantum in scale:

“Mersini-Houghton and Holman’s calculations show that the patch of vacuum that led to our universe must have interacted with neighbouring patches very early on. Because these interactions are between tiny patches of quantum vacuum, they would leave the universes in an entangled state and give them a ghostly connection that allows them to sense and affect each other from afar. ‘Such an entangled state remains for all time,’ says Mersini-Houghton. ‘So although inflation quickly pushed our region beyond the reach of neighbouring regions, it should still retain the imprint of its quantum entanglement with its neighbours.’”

This explains why you would see, as you put it, “No fireworks. No gamma rays. No high energy, low energy, or any energy anything – just a bubble of nothing.”

They make a few predictions as well:

1.) A second cold spot of comparable size in the southern sky.
2.) WMAP and (the soon to be launched) Plank results will not correlate 100% with matter and temperature.
3.) The Large Hadron Collider will NOT detect supersymmetry because the energy levels are 100,000 greater than previously believed.

Anyways, keep the interest up….the probes aren’t stopping being launched.

I don’t think people will freak out; I think it this type of speculation demeans scientists and science; though will probably make for some great scifi. BTW I like scifi.

I would think a somehow very violent event horizon thing would be more likely.

Or nothing at all but a new mixed universe bubble is create and we end up with 2 originals and 1 new odd ball.