{"id":176689,"date":"2023-11-24T22:45:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T04:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/simulating-the-cosmos-is-a-miniature-universe-possible"},"modified":"2023-11-24T22:45:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T04:45:31","slug":"simulating-the-cosmos-is-a-miniature-universe-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/simulating-the-cosmos-is-a-miniature-universe-possible","title":{"rendered":"Simulating the Cosmos: Is a Miniature Universe Possible?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/simulating-the-cosmos-is-a-miniature-universe-possible2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wouldn\u2019t it be nice to have a computer answer all of the biggest questions in the universe?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In his first year of graduate school, in 2013, Michael Wagman walked into his advisor\u2019s office and asked, \u201cCan you help me simulate the universe?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wagman, a theoretical physicist and associate scientist at the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/doe\/\">US Department of Energy\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/fermi-national-accelerator-laboratory\/\">Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory<\/a>, thought it seemed like a reasonable question to ask. \u201cWe have all of these beautiful theoretical descriptions of how we think the world works, so I wanted to try and connect those formal laws of physics to my everyday experience of reality,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wouldn\u2019t it be nice to have a computer answer all of the biggest questions in the universe? In his first year of graduate school, in 2013, Michael Wagman walked into his advisor\u2019s office and asked, \u201cCan you help me simulate the universe?\u201d Wagman, a theoretical physicist and associate scientist at the US Department of Energy\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,32,219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-education","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176689","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}