{"id":113324,"date":"2020-09-23T07:22:22","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T14:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/big-questions-the-multiverse-cosmological-neural-networks-and-space-noodles"},"modified":"2020-09-26T21:45:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T04:45:49","slug":"big-questions-the-multiverse-cosmological-neural-networks-and-space-noodles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/big-questions-the-multiverse-cosmological-neural-networks-and-space-noodles","title":{"rendered":"Big Questions: The Multiverse, Cosmological Neural Networks and \u201cSpace Noodles\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bmyRy2-UhEE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark interviews Dr Vitaly Vanchurin, PhD, Associate Professor, Theoretical Physics and Cosmology, Swenson College of Science and Engineering, at the University of Minnesota (UMN).<\/p>\n<p>Dr Vanchurin\u2019s big questions and the tools we need to answer them:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is the origin of our Universe? What determines our vacuum and the cosmological constant that is responsible for the observed accelerated expansion of space? What determines the onset of structure formation and the birth of galaxies in our Universe? Our innate curiosity about our beginnings has been, since time immemorial, and still is, at the heart of every human being. This age old question of our origin can now be addressed by applying the scientific method\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Ira Pastor comments:<\/p>\n<p>Today, we have a really exciting thought leader joining us on ideaXme who spends his time thinking about really BIG questions \u2013 Questions like: what is the origin of our Universe? What\u2019s behind the cosmological constant (in Albert Einstein\u2019s field equations of general relativity) that is responsible accelerated expansion of space? What determines the onset of structure formation and the birth of galaxies in our Universe? And many other fascinating topics.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Vitaly Vanchurin, is an Associate Professor, Theoretical Physics and Cosmology, Swenson College of Science and Engineering, at the University of Minnesota (UMN).<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/big-questions-the-multiverse-cosmological-neural-networks-and-space-noodles\">Continue reading \u201cBig Questions: The Multiverse, Cosmological Neural Networks and \u201cSpace Noodles\u201d\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark interviews Dr Vitaly Vanchurin, PhD, Associate Professor, Theoretical Physics and Cosmology, Swenson College of Science and Engineering, at the University of Minnesota (UMN). Dr Vanchurin\u2019s big questions and the tools we need to answer them: \u201cWhat is the origin of our Universe? What determines our [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,41,1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-information-science","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113324","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\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113476,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113324\/revisions\/113476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}