{"id":10845,"date":"2014-05-01T07:34:08","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T14:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10845"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:28:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:28:44","slug":"fossil-signal-from-the-earliest-moments-of-the-universe-reveals-new-unknowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/fossil-signal-from-the-earliest-moments-of-the-universe-reveals-new-unknowns","title":{"rendered":"Fossil Signal from the Earliest Moments of the Universe Reveals New Unknowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Galaxy<br \/>\n<br \/> \u201cThere have been hints for a while now that maybe something else is going on,\u201d says Stanford\u2019s Kavli Foundation Deputy Director <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"John Carlstrom\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Carlstrom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">John Carlstrom<\/a>, who leads two other experiments that study the universe\u2019s first light. \u201cMaybe we need to\u2026 allow some new physics in there. Maybe there are more neutrinos. Maybe they\u2019re more massive than we thought. Or maybe it\u2019s something none of us have thought of yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last month, scientists announced the first hard evidence for cosmic inflation, the process by which the infant universe swelled from microscopic to cosmic size in an instant. This almost unimaginably fast expansion was first theorized more than three decades ago, yet only now has \u201csmoking gun\u201d proof emerged when the world was stunned by announcement that a telescope at the South Pole (image above) had detected a cosmic fossil from the earliest moments of creation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailygalaxy.com\/my_weblog\/2014\/04\/fossil-signal-from-the-earliest-moments-of-the-universe-reveals-new-unknowns-does-it-point-to-a-new-.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Galaxy \u201cThere have been hints for a while now that maybe something else is going on,\u201d says Stanford\u2019s Kavli Foundation Deputy Director John Carlstrom, who leads two other experiments that study the universe\u2019s first light. \u201cMaybe we need to\u2026 allow some new physics in there. Maybe there are more neutrinos. Maybe they\u2019re more [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1545],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10845","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56746,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10845\/revisions\/56746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}