{"id":165693,"date":"2023-06-13T10:23:46","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T15:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/controversial-claim-from-nobel-prize-winner-the-universe-keeps-dying-and-being-reborn"},"modified":"2023-06-13T10:23:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T15:23:46","slug":"controversial-claim-from-nobel-prize-winner-the-universe-keeps-dying-and-being-reborn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/controversial-claim-from-nobel-prize-winner-the-universe-keeps-dying-and-being-reborn","title":{"rendered":"Controversial claim from Nobel Prize winner: The universe keeps dying and being reborn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OFqjA5ekmoY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s note: For a more mainstream assessment of this idea, see this <a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/starts-with-a-bang\/no-roger-penrose-we-see-no-evidence-of-a-universe-before-the-big-bang\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> by Dr. Ethan Siegel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sir Roger Penrose, a mathematician and physicist from the University of Oxford who shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 2020, claims our universe has gone through multiple Big Bangs, with another one coming in our future.<\/p>\n<p>Penrose received the Nobel for his working out mathematical methods that proved and expanded Albert Einstein\u2019s general theory of relativity, and for his discoveries on black holes, which showed how objects that become too dense undergo gravitational collapse into <em>singularities<\/em> \u2013 points of infinite mass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor\u2019s note: For a more mainstream assessment of this idea, see this article by Dr. Ethan Siegel. Sir Roger Penrose, a mathematician and physicist from the University of Oxford who shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 2020, claims our universe has gone through multiple Big Bangs, with another one coming in our future. Penrose [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,2229,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-mathematics","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165693","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}