{"id":166824,"date":"2023-07-03T13:24:11","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T18:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/quasar-clocks-show-the-universe-was-five-times-slower-soon-after-the-big-bang"},"modified":"2023-07-03T13:24:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T18:24:11","slug":"quasar-clocks-show-the-universe-was-five-times-slower-soon-after-the-big-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/quasar-clocks-show-the-universe-was-five-times-slower-soon-after-the-big-bang","title":{"rendered":"Quasar \u2018clocks\u2019 show the universe was five times slower soon after the Big Bang"},"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\/3prF2V_a2gY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have for the first time observed the early universe running in extreme slow motion, unlocking one of the mysteries of Einstein\u2019s expanding universe. The research is published in Nature Astronomy.<\/p>\n<p>Einstein\u2019s general theory of relativity means that we should observe the distant\u2014and hence ancient\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/universe\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">universe<\/a> running much slower than the present day. However, peering back that far in time has proven elusive. Scientists have now cracked that mystery by using <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quasars\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quasars<\/a> as \u201cclocks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooking back to a time when the universe was just over a billion years old, we see time appearing to flow five times slower,\u201d said lead author of the study, Professor Geraint Lewis from the School of Physics and Sydney Institute for Astronomy at the University of Sydney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have for the first time observed the early universe running in extreme slow motion, unlocking one of the mysteries of Einstein\u2019s expanding universe. The research is published in Nature Astronomy. Einstein\u2019s general theory of relativity means that we should observe the distant\u2014and hence ancient\u2014 universe running much slower than the present day. However, peering [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166824","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}