{"id":146125,"date":"2022-09-11T15:22:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T20:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/hitting-the-books-how-to-uncover-the-true-nature-of-the-multiverse"},"modified":"2022-09-11T15:22:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T20:22:44","slug":"hitting-the-books-how-to-uncover-the-true-nature-of-the-multiverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/hitting-the-books-how-to-uncover-the-true-nature-of-the-multiverse","title":{"rendered":"Hitting the Books: How to uncover the true nature of the multiverse"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It\u2019s difficult to describe the state of the universe\u2019s affairs back when the whole of everything was compressed to a size slightly smaller than the period at the end of this sentence \u2014 on account that the concepts of time and space literally didn\u2019t yet apply. But that challenge hasn\u2019t stopped pioneering theoretical astrophysicist, Dr. Laura Mersini-Houghton<\/a>, from seeking knowledge at the edge of the known universe and beyond. In her new book, Before the Big Bang<\/em><\/a>, Mersini-Houghton recounts her early life in communist Albania, her career as she rose to prominence in the male-dominated field of astrophysics and discusses her research into the multiverse which could fundamentally rewrite our understanding of reality.<\/p>\n

Excerpted from <\/em>Before The Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe and What Lies Beyond<\/a> by Laura Mersini-Houghton. Published by Mariner Books. Copyright \u00a9 2022 by Laura Mersini-Houghton. All rights reserved.<\/em><\/p>\n

Scientific investigations of problems like the creation of the universe, which we can neither observe nor reproduce and test in a lab, are similar to detective work in that they rely on intuition as well as evidence. Like a detective, as pieces of the puzzle start falling into place, researchers can intuitively sense the answer is close. This was the feeling I had as Rich and I tried to figure out how we could test our theory about the multiverse. Rationally, it seemed like a long shot, but intuitively, it seemed achievable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s difficult to describe the state of the universe\u2019s affairs back when the whole of everything was compressed to a size slightly smaller than the period at the end of this sentence \u2014 on account that the concepts of time and space literally didn\u2019t yet apply. But that challenge hasn\u2019t stopped pioneering theoretical astrophysicist, Dr. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146125","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}