{"id":128645,"date":"2021-10-06T21:24:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T04:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/the-biggest-simulation-of-the-universe-yet-stretches-back-to-the-big-bang"},"modified":"2021-10-06T21:24:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T04:24:38","slug":"the-biggest-simulation-of-the-universe-yet-stretches-back-to-the-big-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/the-biggest-simulation-of-the-universe-yet-stretches-back-to-the-big-bang","title":{"rendered":"The Biggest Simulation of the Universe Yet Stretches Back to the Big Bang"},"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\/R7nV6JEMGAo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Remember the philosophical argument our universe is a simulation? Well, a team of astrophysicists say <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nao.ac.jp\/en\/news\/science\/2021\/20210910-cfca.html\">they\u2019ve created the biggest simulated universe yet<\/a>. But you won\u2019t find any virtual beings in it\u2014or even planets or stars.<\/p>\n<p>The simulation is 9.6 billion light-years to a side, so its smallest structures are still enormous (the size of small galaxies). The model\u2019s 2.1 <em>trillion<\/em> particles simulate the dark matter glue holding the universe together.<\/p>\n<p>Named Uchuu, or Japanese for \u201couter space,\u201d the simulation covers some 13.8 billion years and will help scientists study how dark matter has driven cosmic evolution since the Big Bang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the philosophical argument our universe is a simulation? Well, a team of astrophysicists say they\u2019ve created the biggest simulated universe yet. But you won\u2019t find any virtual beings in it\u2014or even planets or stars. The simulation is 9.6 billion light-years to a side, so its smallest structures are still enormous (the size of small [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,385,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-evolution","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128645","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=128645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}