{"id":151362,"date":"2022-11-28T21:28:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T03:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/scientists-say-stuff-might-have-been-happening-before-the-big-bang"},"modified":"2022-11-28T21:28:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T03:28:44","slug":"scientists-say-stuff-might-have-been-happening-before-the-big-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/scientists-say-stuff-might-have-been-happening-before-the-big-bang","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Say Stuff Might Have Been Happening Before the Big Bang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-say-stuff-might-have-been-happening-before-the-big-bang2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of researchers are suggesting that our understanding of the origins of our universe may need some updates.<\/p>\n<p>As detailed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.3847\/2041-8213\/ac9b0e\" class=\"\">new paper<\/a> published this week in <em>The Astrophysical Journal Letters<\/em>, they say the universe may have begun with a \u201cBig Bounce\u201d rather than a Big Bang.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the cosmos may have been born following of the end of a previous cosmological phase \u2014 a bounce \u2014 and not the result of space-time inflating exponentially into existence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of researchers are suggesting that our understanding of the origins of our universe may need some updates. As detailed in a new paper published this week in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, they say the universe may have begun with a \u201cBig Bounce\u201d rather than a Big Bang. In other words, the cosmos [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151362","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}