{"id":104054,"date":"2020-03-20T20:03:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T03:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/this-galaxy-cluster-may-have-just-dealt-a-major-blow-to-string-theory"},"modified":"2020-03-20T20:03:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T03:03:16","slug":"this-galaxy-cluster-may-have-just-dealt-a-major-blow-to-string-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/this-galaxy-cluster-may-have-just-dealt-a-major-blow-to-string-theory","title":{"rendered":"This Galaxy Cluster May Have Just Dealt a Major Blow to String Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-galaxy-cluster-may-have-just-dealt-a-major-blow-to-string-theory3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the heart of a galaxy cluster 200 million light-years away, astronomers have failed to detect hypothetical particles called axions.<\/p>\n<p>This places new constraints on how we believe these particles work \u2014 but it also has pretty major implications for string theory, and the development of a Theory of Everything that describes how the physical Universe works.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil recently I had no idea just how much X-ray astronomers bring to the table when it comes to string theory, but we could play a major role,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/chandra.harvard.edu\/press\/20_releases\/press_031920.html\">said astrophysicist Christopher Reynolds of the University of Cambridge in the UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the heart of a galaxy cluster 200 million light-years away, astronomers have failed to detect hypothetical particles called axions. This places new constraints on how we believe these particles work \u2014 but it also has pretty major implications for string theory, and the development of a Theory of Everything that describes how the physical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}