{"id":155731,"date":"2023-01-18T04:28:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T10:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/what-is-our-universe-expanding-into"},"modified":"2023-01-18T04:28:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T10:28:03","slug":"what-is-our-universe-expanding-into","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/what-is-our-universe-expanding-into","title":{"rendered":"What Is Our Universe Expanding Into?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-is-our-universe-expanding-into2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>One question for <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmsutter.com\/bio\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"\"><em>Paul Sutter<\/em><\/a><em>, author of \u201cThe Remarkable Emptiness of Existence,\u201d an <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/nautil.us\/the-remarkable-emptiness-of-existence-256323\/\" class=\"\"><em>article in <\/em><i>Nautilus<\/i><\/a><em> this month. Sutter is a theoretical cosmologist at the Institute for Advanced Computational Science at Stony Brook University, where he studies cosmic voids, maps the leftover light from the big bang, and develops new techniques for finding the first stars to appear in the cosmos.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>What is our universe expanding into?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a great question. The answer, though, is that it\u2019s not a great question. It\u2019s a little tricky, so let me walk you through it. Yes, our universe is expanding. Our universe has no center and no edge. The Big Bang didn\u2019t happen in one location in space. The Big Bang happened everywhere in the cosmos simultaneously. The Big Bang was not a point in space. It was a point in time. It exists in all of our paths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One question for Paul Sutter, author of \u201cThe Remarkable Emptiness of Existence,\u201d an article in Nautilus this month. Sutter is a theoretical cosmologist at the Institute for Advanced Computational Science at Stony Brook University, where he studies cosmic voids, maps the leftover light from the big bang, and develops new techniques for finding the first [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,33,1965],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-cosmology","category-mapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155731","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=155731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}