{"id":145036,"date":"2022-08-28T16:23:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T21:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/did-the-big-bang-happen"},"modified":"2022-08-28T16:23:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T21:23:58","slug":"did-the-big-bang-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/did-the-big-bang-happen","title":{"rendered":"Did the Big Bang happen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/did-the-big-bang-happen2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Did the Big Bang happen?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CAVUvq6BE1E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To try out our new course (and many others on math and science), go to <a href=\"https:\/\/brilliant.org\/sabine\">https:\/\/brilliant.org\/sabine<\/a>. You can get started for free, and the first 200 will get 20% off the annual premium subscription.<\/p>\n<p>Physicists have many theories for the beginning of our universe: A big bang, a big bounce, a black hole, a network, a collision of membranes, a gas of strings, and the list goes on. What does this mean? It means we don\u2019t know how the universe began. And the reason isn\u2019t just that we\u2019re lacking data, the reason is that science is reaching its limits when we try to understand the initial condition of the entire universe.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc8c Sign up for my weekly science newsletter. It\u2019s free! \u279c <a href=\"http:\/\/sabinehossenfelder.com\/\">http:\/\/sabinehossenfelder.com\/<\/a><br \/> \ud83d\udc49 Support me on Patreon \u279c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Sabine\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Sabine<\/a>.<br \/> \ud83d\udcd6 My new book \u201cExistential Physics\u201d is now on sale \u279c <a href=\"http:\/\/existentialphysics.com\/\">http:\/\/existentialphysics.com\/<\/a><br \/> \ud83d\udd17 Join this channel to get access to perks \u279c<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC1yNl2E66ZzKApQdRuTQ4tw\/join.\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC1yNl2E66ZzKApQdRuTQ4tw\/join.\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC1yNl2E66ZzKApQdRuTQ4tw\/join.<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Poplawski paper about how the universe might have been born from a black hole is here: <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s10714-021-02790-7\">https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s10714-021-02790-7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>00:00 Intro.<br \/> 00:25 The Big Bang Theory.<br \/> 03:47 Why So Many Other Theories?<br \/> 04:53 The Problem With Cosmology.<br \/> 07:30 The Importance of Simplicity.<br \/> 10:57 Stories of Creation.<br \/> 15:35 Sponsor Message<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To try out our new course (and many others on math and science), go to https:\/\/brilliant.org\/sabine. You can get started for free, and the first 200 will get 20% off the annual premium subscription. Physicists have many theories for the beginning of our universe: A big bang, a big bounce, a black hole, a network, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,2229,13,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-mathematics","category-open-access","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145036","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=145036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}