A "Designer Universe" Created By Mortals Like Us?

This is a rather interesting and certainly provocative piece by John Gribbin. In it, he is pushing out the idea that our universe could have been by a designer - but not a 'god' - that is not too far from us, using nothing more than a giant particle accelerator!

The black holes that could be created in a particle accelerator would be far smaller: tiny masses squeezed into incredibly tiny volumes. But because of gravity's negative energy, it doesn't matter how small such holes are: they still have the potential to inflate and expand in their own dimensions (rather than gobbling up our own). Such expansion was precisely what our universe did in the Big Bang, when it suddenly exploded from a tiny clump of matter into a fully-fledged cosmos.

You have to read the entire article to get the full picture. For me, it makes for a very good science fiction novel or movie. Again, there's nothing here that we can rule out as being impossible, but is it probable?

Zz.