{"id":150609,"date":"2022-11-20T20:23:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T02:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/why-this-universe-new-calculation-suggests-our-cosmos-is-typical"},"modified":"2022-11-20T20:23:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T02:23:06","slug":"why-this-universe-new-calculation-suggests-our-cosmos-is-typical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/why-this-universe-new-calculation-suggests-our-cosmos-is-typical","title":{"rendered":"Why This Universe? New Calculation Suggests Our Cosmos Is Typical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-this-universe-new-calculation-suggests-our-cosmos-is-typical2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a novel contribution that uses different methods compared to what most people have been doing,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/sgielen.wordpress.com\/\">Steffen Gielen<\/a>, a cosmologist at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>The provocative conclusion rests on a mathematical trick involving switching to a clock that ticks with imaginary numbers. Using the imaginary clock, as Hawking did in the \u201970s, Turok and Boyle could calculate a quantity, known as entropy, that appears to correspond to our universe. But the imaginary time trick is a roundabout way of calculating entropy, and without a more rigorous method, the meaning of the quantity remains hotly debated. While physicists puzzle over the correct interpretation of the entropy calculation, many view it as a new guidepost on the road to the fundamental, quantum nature of space and time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a novel contribution that uses different methods compared to what most people have been doing,\u201d said Steffen Gielen, a cosmologist at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. The provocative conclusion rests on a mathematical trick involving switching to a clock that ticks with imaginary numbers. Using the imaginary clock, as Hawking did [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150609","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=150609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}