{"id":150148,"date":"2022-11-15T01:24:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T07:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/unexpectedly-the-cosmos-didnt-start-with-the-big-bang-anymore"},"modified":"2022-11-15T01:24:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T07:24:05","slug":"unexpectedly-the-cosmos-didnt-start-with-the-big-bang-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/unexpectedly-the-cosmos-didnt-start-with-the-big-bang-anymore","title":{"rendered":"Unexpectedly, the cosmos didn\u2019t start with the Big Bang anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unexpectedly-the-cosmos-didnt-start-with-the-big-bang-anymore2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the beginning, there was \u2026 well, maybe there was no beginning. Perhaps our universe has always existed \u2014 and a new theory of quantum gravity reveals how that could work.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cReality has so many things that most people would associate with sci-fi or even fantasy,\u201d said Bruno Bento, a physicist who studies the nature of time at the University of Liverpool in the U.K.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In his work, he employed a new theory of quantum gravity, called causal set theory, in which space and time are broken down into discrete chunks of space-time. At some level, there\u2019s a fundamental unit of space-time, according to this theory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the beginning, there was \u2026 well, maybe there was no beginning. Perhaps our universe has always existed \u2014 and a new theory of quantum gravity reveals how that could work. \u201cReality has so many things that most people would associate with sci-fi or even fantasy,\u201d said Bruno Bento, a physicist who studies the nature [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150148","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=150148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}