{"id":162880,"date":"2023-04-27T08:22:31","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T13:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/is-our-universe-standing-still-examining-einsteins-key-theory-through-the-cosmic-yin-yang"},"modified":"2023-04-27T08:22:31","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T13:22:31","slug":"is-our-universe-standing-still-examining-einsteins-key-theory-through-the-cosmic-yin-yang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/is-our-universe-standing-still-examining-einsteins-key-theory-through-the-cosmic-yin-yang","title":{"rendered":"Is our Universe standing still? Examining Einstein\u2019s key theory through the cosmic \u201cyin-yang\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/is-our-universe-standing-still-examining-einsteins-key-theory-through-the-cosmic-yin-yang3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is there such a thing as absolute motion? Modern science, as represented by Einstein\u2019s theory of relativity, says no. After all, absolute motion would require that there exists a single coordinate system \u2014 or common reference point \u2014 that all observers could agree is stationary. Such a coordinate system doesn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n<p>But modern science has also found a way to observe the coordinate system of the entire visible Universe. If one can find a coordinate system in which the visible Universe is stationary, isn\u2019t that the \u201cright\u201d one? What\u2019s the truth behind this, and does it invalidate Einstein\u2019s theory? And how does the yin-yang symbol come into play?<\/p>\n<p>Einstein\u2019s theory of relativity makes many counterintuitive claims, but those claims are consequences of one fundamental assumption: that any individual is perfectly justified in assuming that they are the one, unmoving, thing in the entire Universe. This assertion could be called the \u201ccosmic egotist principle.\u201d Essentially, you are the one thing around which the entire Universe revolves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there such a thing as absolute motion? Modern science, as represented by Einstein\u2019s theory of relativity, says no. After all, absolute motion would require that there exists a single coordinate system \u2014 or common reference point \u2014 that all observers could agree is stationary. Such a coordinate system doesn\u2019t exist. But modern science has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162880","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}