So I got this information from a magazine , Scientific American issue Physics at the Limits. The theory is that our Universe came about, when in the "Bulk Universe", which is four dimensional, a four dimensional Star collapsed and formed a black hole which became our 3 dimensional "Brane Universe", in which we live. My question is, how could this one Star have contained all the material that is in our Universe ?
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1$\begingroup$ If I understand you correctly, you seem to be talking about a simplification of brane cosmology. Given the imprecision of the simplification you are dealing with, it may be difficult to answer such a "how" question, but I'm no cosmologist. $\endgroup$– called2voyage ♦Commented Dec 7, 2015 at 21:37
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1$\begingroup$ You should also note that brane cosmology is a collection of theories without any evidence thus far. $\endgroup$– called2voyage ♦Commented Dec 7, 2015 at 21:38
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4$\begingroup$ Is this the article you're referencing? scientificamerican.com/article/… It's worth pointing out that the first line under the title is a question. "Is the big bang, and all that came from it, a holographic mirage from another dimension?" This is a creative idea more than it is a theory with any evidence behind it. $\endgroup$– userLTKCommented Dec 7, 2015 at 21:46
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I didn't read the SciAm article, but: Any cosmological theory compatible with "the" mainstream big bang theory doesn't assume material to have been contained in "Our Universe" (needs to be defined) from the very beginning. Instead a very hot, unified state, is assumed, which then underwent several symmetry breakings (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetry_breaking, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_mechanism), before "material" came into existence, as we observe it by now.
So, the very hypothetical, presumed four-dimensional star just needs to trigger an initial state causing the big bang. Whether "Our Universe" is a brane universe embedded in a higher-dimensional universe, is another mere hypothesis. Whatever "star" or "black hole" in a higher-dimensional universe would mean, the physics would be very different from the physics we can observe. For instance, inverse square laws wouldn't hold due to the additional dimension(s), hence orbital dynamics, electromagnetism needed for atoms, etc., all would either fail, or work rather different. Presuming the existence of stars in such a hypothetical universe is very daring, already.
