{"id":121127,"date":"2021-04-01T07:23:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T14:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/simulating-the-universe-a-trillionth-of-a-second-after-the-big-bang"},"modified":"2021-04-01T07:23:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T14:23:22","slug":"simulating-the-universe-a-trillionth-of-a-second-after-the-big-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/simulating-the-universe-a-trillionth-of-a-second-after-the-big-bang","title":{"rendered":"Simulating the Universe a Trillionth of a Second After the Big Bang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/simulating-the-universe-a-trillionth-of-a-second-after-the-big-bang3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Big_Bang\">Big Bang<\/a> remains the best way to explain what happened at the beginning of the Universe. However, the incredible energies flowing during the early part of the bang are almost incomprehensive to our everyday experience. Luckily, computers aren\u2019t so attached to normal human ways of thinking and have long been used to model the early universe right after the Bang. Now, a team from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_G%C3%B6ttingen\">University of<strong> <\/strong>G\u00f6ttingen<\/a> have created the most comprehensive model of what exactly happened in that very early stage of the universe \u2013 one trillionth of a second after the Big Bang.<\/p>\n<p>Just because a computer can model it doesn\u2019t really mean it is easy to explain, however. The model includes clumps of energy weighing grams, but which are one millionth the size of a single <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Proton\">proton<\/a>. These energy structures defined what would eventually become the structure of the universe today, with tiny variations in the original structure resulting in entire galaxies or complete voids, depending on the presence or absence of matter.<\/p>\n<p>Throwing this much computing power at a physical space one millionth the size of a proton was no mean feat. \u201cIt is probably the largest simulation of the smallest area of the Universe that has been carried out thus far\u201d says Professor Jens Niemeyer, who leads the group carrying out the research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Bang remains the best way to explain what happened at the beginning of the Universe. However, the incredible energies flowing during the early part of the bang are almost incomprehensive to our everyday experience. Luckily, computers aren\u2019t so attached to normal human ways of thinking and have long been used to model the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121127","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}