{"id":177245,"date":"2023-12-02T07:22:52","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T13:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/the-universe-began-with-a-bang-not-a-bounce-new-studies-find"},"modified":"2023-12-02T07:22:52","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T13:22:52","slug":"the-universe-began-with-a-bang-not-a-bounce-new-studies-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/the-universe-began-with-a-bang-not-a-bounce-new-studies-find","title":{"rendered":"The Universe Began with a Bang, Not a Bounce, New Studies Find"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-universe-began-with-a-bang-not-a-bounce-new-studies-find3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research pokes holes in the idea that the cosmos expanded and then contracted before beginning again.<\/p>\n<p>By <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/james-riordon\/\">James Riordon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research pokes holes in the idea that the cosmos expanded and then contracted before beginning again. By James Riordon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177245","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}