{"id":147782,"date":"2022-10-08T13:22:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T18:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/the-big-bang-never-happened-and-there-might-be-traces-of-an-earlier-universe-scientist-claims"},"modified":"2022-10-08T13:22:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T18:22:25","slug":"the-big-bang-never-happened-and-there-might-be-traces-of-an-earlier-universe-scientist-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/the-big-bang-never-happened-and-there-might-be-traces-of-an-earlier-universe-scientist-claims","title":{"rendered":"The Big Bang Never Happened \u2014 And There Might Be Traces Of An Earlier Universe, Scientist Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-big-bang-never-happened-and-there-might-be-traces-of-an-earlier-universe-scientist-claims2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A physicist from the University of Campinas in Brazil isn\u2019t a big fan of the idea that time started with a so-called Big Bang. So Instead, Juliano C\u00e9sar Silva Neves imagines a collapse followed by a sudden expansion, one that could even still carry the scars of a previous timeline.<\/p>\n<p>Updated version of the previous article.<\/p>\n<p>The idea itself isn\u2019t new, but Neves has used a fifty-year-old mathematical trick describing black holes to show how our Universe needn\u2019t have had such a compact start to existence. At first glance, our Universe doesn\u2019t seem to have a lot in common with black holes. One is expanding space full of clumpy bits; the other is mass pulling at space so hard that even light has no hope of escape. But at the heart of both lies a concept known as a singularity \u2013 a volume of energy so infinitely dense, we can\u2019t even begin to explain what\u2019s going on inside it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A physicist from the University of Campinas in Brazil isn\u2019t a big fan of the idea that time started with a so-called Big Bang. So Instead, Juliano C\u00e9sar Silva Neves imagines a collapse followed by a sudden expansion, one that could even still carry the scars of a previous timeline. Updated version of the previous [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,2229,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-mathematics","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147782","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=147782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}