This is sure to get the creationists in a flap – physicists in Japan are considering a project that will, in essence, attempt to create a new universe. Although completely counter-intuitive to the average layman, this experiment has a good grounding in well-understood theories of how our own universe was formed. And, if I understand the article correctly, the only way they can tell if the baby universe has been created is by observing it to have disappeared. I really wish I’d paid more attention at university.