{"id":140343,"date":"2022-06-09T18:23:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T23:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/putting-the-theory-of-special-relativity-into-practice"},"modified":"2022-06-09T18:23:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T23:23:06","slug":"putting-the-theory-of-special-relativity-into-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/putting-the-theory-of-special-relativity-into-practice","title":{"rendered":"Putting the theory of special relativity into practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/putting-the-theory-of-special-relativity-into-practice2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists who study the cosmos have a favorite philosophy known as the \u201cmediocrity principle,\u201d which, in essence, suggests that there\u2019s really nothing special about Earth, the sun or the Milky Way galaxy compared to the rest of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>Now, new research from CU Boulder adds yet another piece of evidence to the case for mediocrity: Galaxies are, on average, at rest with respect to the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/early+universe\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">early universe<\/a>. Jeremy Darling, a CU Boulder astrophysics professor, recently published this new cosmological finding in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat this research is telling us is that we have a funny motion, but that funny motion is consistent with everything we know about the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/universe\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">universe <\/a>\u2014there\u2019s nothing special going on here,\u201d said Darling. \u201cWe\u2019re not special as a galaxy or as observers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists who study the cosmos have a favorite philosophy known as the \u201cmediocrity principle,\u201d which, in essence, suggests that there\u2019s really nothing special about Earth, the sun or the Milky Way galaxy compared to the rest of the universe. Now, new research from CU Boulder adds yet another piece of evidence to the case for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140343","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=140343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}