{"id":180017,"date":"2024-01-07T11:24:33","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T17:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/it-could-be-profound-how-astronomer-wendy-freedman-is-trying-to-fix-the-universe"},"modified":"2024-01-07T11:24:33","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T17:24:33","slug":"it-could-be-profound-how-astronomer-wendy-freedman-is-trying-to-fix-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/it-could-be-profound-how-astronomer-wendy-freedman-is-trying-to-fix-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It could be profound\u2019: How astronomer Wendy Freedman is trying to fix the universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/it-could-be-profound-how-astronomer-wendy-freedman-is-trying-to-fix-the-universe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The problem is known as the Hubble tension, and it centers around figuring out a number for the universe\u2019s expansion rate, called the Hubble constant. To find it, scientists have pored over tiny fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) \u2014 an ancient relic of the universe\u2019s first light \u2014 and built cosmic distance ladders to remote, pulsating stars called Cepheid variables.<\/p>\n<p>But the best experiments using these two methods disagree. The difference in results may have seemed small, but it was enough to spark a major crisis in cosmology.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/astro.uchicago.edu\/people\/wendy-l-freedman.php\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> Wendy Freedman<\/a>, an astrophysicist at the University of Chicago, has spent four decades studying the Hubble constant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem is known as the Hubble tension, and it centers around figuring out a number for the universe\u2019s expansion rate, called the Hubble constant. To find it, scientists have pored over tiny fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) \u2014 an ancient relic of the universe\u2019s first light \u2014 and built cosmic distance ladders [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180017","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=180017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}