{"id":179555,"date":"2023-12-31T02:23:18","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T08:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/was-the-big-bang-the-beginning-reimagining-time-in-a-cyclic-universe"},"modified":"2023-12-31T02:23:18","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T08:23:18","slug":"was-the-big-bang-the-beginning-reimagining-time-in-a-cyclic-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/was-the-big-bang-the-beginning-reimagining-time-in-a-cyclic-universe","title":{"rendered":"Was the Big Bang the Beginning? Reimagining Time in a Cyclic Universe"},"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\/MO3w2D3uDTw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A universe that continually expands has long been the dominant cosmological framework. But a universe that undergoes cycles of expansion and contraction, perhaps for all time, has recently been analyzed mathematically, and its proponents claim that it provides a more convincing cosmological paradigm. Join leaders of this renegade approach as they make the case for a new kind of cosmology that reimagines time.<\/p>\n<p>The Big Ideas Series is supported in part by the John Templeton Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Participants:<br \/> Peter Galison.<br \/> Anna Ijjas.<br \/> Paul Steinhardt.<\/p>\n<p>Moderator:<br \/> Brian Greene.<\/p>\n<p>SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS on this program through a short survey:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/survey.alchemer.com\/s3\/764115\">https:\/\/survey.alchemer.com\/s3\/764115<\/a>\u2026 Landing Page: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsciencefestival.com\/.\">https:\/\/www.worldsciencefestival.com\/.<\/a>\u2026 \u2014 SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube Channel and \u201cring the bell\u201d for all the latest videos from WSF \u2014 VISIT our Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldsciencefestival.com\">http:\/\/www.worldsciencefestival.com<\/a> \u2014 LIKE us on Facebook: <img alt=\"\" class=\"\"> \/ worldsciencefestival \u2014 FOLLOW us on Twitter: <img alt=\"\" class=\"\"> \/ worldscifest #bigbang #cosmology #briangreene.<\/p>\n<p>WSF Landing Page: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsciencefestival.com\/.\">https:\/\/www.worldsciencefestival.com\/.<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/was-the-big-bang-the-beginning-reimagining-time-in-a-cyclic-universe\">Continue reading \u201cWas the Big Bang the Beginning? Reimagining Time in a Cyclic Universe\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A universe that continually expands has long been the dominant cosmological framework. But a universe that undergoes cycles of expansion and contraction, perhaps for all time, has recently been analyzed mathematically, and its proponents claim that it provides a more convincing cosmological paradigm. Join leaders of this renegade approach as they make the case for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179555","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=179555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}