{"id":143651,"date":"2022-08-05T20:22:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T01:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/do-bouncing-universes-have-a-beginning"},"modified":"2022-08-05T20:22:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T01:22:39","slug":"do-bouncing-universes-have-a-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/do-bouncing-universes-have-a-beginning","title":{"rendered":"Do \u2018bouncing universes\u2019 have a beginning?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/do-bouncing-universes-have-a-beginning2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In trying to understand the nature of the cosmos, some theorists propose that the universe expands and contracts in endless cycles.<\/p>\n<p>Because this behavior is hypothesized to be perpetual, the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/universe\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">universe<\/a> should have no beginning and no end\u2014only eternal cycles of growing and shrinking that extend forever into the future, and forever into the past.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an appealing concept in part because it removes the need for a state called a singularity that corresponds to \u201cbeginning of time\u201d in other models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In trying to understand the nature of the cosmos, some theorists propose that the universe expands and contracts in endless cycles. Because this behavior is hypothesized to be perpetual, the universe should have no beginning and no end\u2014only eternal cycles of growing and shrinking that extend forever into the future, and forever into the past. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-singularity","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143651","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}