Because their proposal is based on rather specific models and assumptions and their is no current evidence for it, I would say it logically possible, but not compelling. |
Controlled light can be directed, switched and processed like electrons in an electronic circuit, and such photonic devices have many applications in research and in communications. |
The pattern in which photons are blocked or not blocked had never really been computed. In the laboratory, we were able to construct a device that was effectively like doing a computer simulation to see the patterns of transmission. |
The search for a structure that blocks the passage of light in all directions has fascinated physicists and engineers for the past two decades. |
The universe was quiet, vacuous. Very slowly, a weak attraction brought them together, creating a collision that made particles and energy. |
They are only attempting to explain the evolution of the universe between now and the collapse, whereas we showed how this can be embedded in a larger cyclic scenario that leads to an eternal universe. |