{"id":163687,"date":"2023-05-11T16:22:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T21:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/researchers-find-new-approach-to-explore-earliest-universe-dynamics-with-gravitational-waves"},"modified":"2023-05-11T16:22:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T21:22:20","slug":"researchers-find-new-approach-to-explore-earliest-universe-dynamics-with-gravitational-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/researchers-find-new-approach-to-explore-earliest-universe-dynamics-with-gravitational-waves","title":{"rendered":"Researchers find new approach to explore earliest universe dynamics with gravitational waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-find-new-approach-to-explore-earliest-universe-dynamics-with-gravitational-waves.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have discovered a new generic production mechanism of gravitational waves generated by a phenomenon known as oscillons, which can originate in many cosmological theories from the fragmentation into solitonic \u201clumps\u201d of the inflaton field that drove the early universe\u2019s rapid expansion, reports a new study published in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i> on May 2.<\/p>\n<p>The results have set the stage for revealing exciting novel insights about the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/universe\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">universe<\/a>\u2019s earliest moments.<\/p>\n<p>The inflationary period, which occurred just after the Big Bang, is believed to have caused the universe to expand exponentially. In many cosmological theories, the rapid expansion period is followed by the formation of oscillons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have discovered a new generic production mechanism of gravitational waves generated by a phenomenon known as oscillons, which can originate in many cosmological theories from the fragmentation into solitonic \u201clumps\u201d of the inflaton field that drove the early universe\u2019s rapid expansion, reports a new study published in Physical Review Letters on May 2. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163687","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=163687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}