{"id":175282,"date":"2023-11-01T14:26:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T19:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/the-largest-ever-simulation-of-the-universe-could-finally-reveal-how-we-got-here"},"modified":"2023-11-01T14:26:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T19:26:45","slug":"the-largest-ever-simulation-of-the-universe-could-finally-reveal-how-we-got-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/the-largest-ever-simulation-of-the-universe-could-finally-reveal-how-we-got-here","title":{"rendered":"The Largest-Ever Simulation of The Universe Could Finally Reveal How We Got Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-largest-ever-simulation-of-the-universe-could-finally-reveal-how-we-got-here2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How did we get here? Not just we humans, scrabbling about on a pale blue dot, hurtling around a star, hurtling around a supermassive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/black-holes\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">black hole<\/a>, hurtling through the local cluster. But how did the dot get here, and the star, and the black hole, and the cluster?<\/p>\n<p>How did the incomprehensibly immense <em>everything<\/em> of it all get to where it is now, from an unimaginable nothing, billions of years ago?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s it, really, the question of questions. And, with the largest project of its kind to date, astronomers are attempting to find answers \u2013 by conducting computer simulations of the entire Universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did we get here? Not just we humans, scrabbling about on a pale blue dot, hurtling around a star, hurtling around a supermassive black hole, hurtling through the local cluster. But how did the dot get here, and the star, and the black hole, and the cluster? How did the incomprehensibly immense everything of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175282","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}