{"id":108374,"date":"2020-06-08T11:23:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T18:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/scientists-claim-the-universe-is-actually-flat"},"modified":"2020-06-08T11:23:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T18:23:43","slug":"scientists-claim-the-universe-is-actually-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/scientists-claim-the-universe-is-actually-flat","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Claim the Universe Is Actually Flat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-claim-the-universe-is-actually-flat.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Warped Structure<\/b><\/p>\n<p>When scientists say the universe is flat, it doesn\u2019t necessarily mean it resembles an infinitely-expanding sheet of paper. More study, for instance, is needed to determine whether the universe could be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/what-is-the-geometry-of-the-universe-20200316\/\">bent into a torus<\/a> \u2014 a donut-like shape still considered \u201cflat\u201d by cosmological models.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis result shows the power of galaxy surveys to pin down the amount of dark energy and how it evolved over the last billion years,\u201d Portsmouth cosmologist Seshadri Nadathur <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/most-precise-tests-of-dark-energy-and-cosmic-expansion-yet-confirm-the-model-of-a-spatially-flat-universe\/\">said in a press release<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019re making really precise measurements now and the data is going to get even better with new surveys coming online very soon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warped Structure When scientists say the universe is flat, it doesn\u2019t necessarily mean it resembles an infinitely-expanding sheet of paper. More study, for instance, is needed to determine whether the universe could be bent into a torus \u2014 a donut-like shape still considered \u201cflat\u201d by cosmological models. \u201cThis result shows the power of galaxy surveys [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108374","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=108374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}