{"id":147466,"date":"2022-10-03T15:22:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T20:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/can-stringy-physics-rescue-the-universe-from-a-catastrophic-transformation"},"modified":"2022-10-03T15:22:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T20:22:38","slug":"can-stringy-physics-rescue-the-universe-from-a-catastrophic-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/can-stringy-physics-rescue-the-universe-from-a-catastrophic-transformation","title":{"rendered":"Can stringy physics rescue the universe from a catastrophic transformation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-stringy-physics-rescue-the-universe-from-a-catastrophic-transformation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our universe may be fundamentally unstable. In a flash, the vacuum of space-time may find a new ground state, triggering a cataclysmic transformation of the physics of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>Or not. A new understanding inspired by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/17594-string-theory.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"> string theory<\/a> shows that our universe may be more stable than we previously thought.<\/p>\n<p>Within the first microseconds of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/25126-big-bang-theory.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Big Bang<\/a>, the universe underwent a series of radical phase transitions. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/four-fundamental-forces.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"> four forces of nature<\/a> \u2014 electromagnetism, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/classical-gravity.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"> gravity<\/a>, the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force \u2014 were at one time unified into a single force. Physicists do not know the character or nature of this force, but they do know that it didn\u2019t last long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our universe may be fundamentally unstable. In a flash, the vacuum of space-time may find a new ground state, triggering a cataclysmic transformation of the physics of the universe. Or not. A new understanding inspired by string theory shows that our universe may be more stable than we previously thought. Within the first microseconds of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147466","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=147466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}