{"id":16780,"date":"2015-08-31T13:31:36","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T20:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/life-might-spread-across-universe-like-an-epidemic-in-new-math-theory"},"modified":"2017-04-25T00:29:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T07:29:58","slug":"life-might-spread-across-universe-like-an-epidemic-in-new-math-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/life-might-spread-across-universe-like-an-epidemic-in-new-math-theory","title":{"rendered":"Life Might Spread Across Universe Like an \u2018Epidemic\u2019 in New Math Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/life-might-spread-across-universe-like-an-epidemic-in-new-math-theory.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As astronomers get closer to finding potential signatures of life on faraway planets, a new mathematical description shows how to understand life\u2019s spread \u2014 and to determine if it\u2019s jumping from star to star. \u201cLife could spread from host star to host star in a pattern similar to the outbreak of an epidemic,\u201d study co-author Avi Loeb of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/life-might-spread-across-universe-epidemic-math-theory-175817524.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As astronomers get closer to finding potential signatures of life on faraway planets, a new mathematical description shows how to understand life\u2019s spread \u2014 and to determine if it\u2019s jumping from star to star. \u201cLife could spread from host star to host star in a pattern similar to the outbreak of an epidemic,\u201d study co-author [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16780","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51451,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16780\/revisions\/51451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}