{"id":187517,"date":"2024-04-17T06:22:28","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T11:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/top-astronomers-gather-to-confront-possibility-they-were-very-wrong-about-the-universe"},"modified":"2024-04-17T06:22:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T11:22:28","slug":"top-astronomers-gather-to-confront-possibility-they-were-very-wrong-about-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/top-astronomers-gather-to-confront-possibility-they-were-very-wrong-about-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"Top Astronomers Gather to Confront Possibility They Were Very Wrong About the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/top-astronomers-gather-to-confront-possibility-they-were-very-wrong-about-the-universe2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A number of high-profile astronomers are set to convene at London\u2019s Royal Society to question some of the most fundamental aspects of our understanding of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2024\/apr\/14\/worlds-top-cosmologists-convene-to-question-conventional-view-of-the-universe\" class=\"\"><em>The Guardian<\/em> reports<\/a>, the luminaries of cosmology will be <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/new-paper-claims-dark-matter-doesnt-exist\" class=\"\">re-examining some basic assumptions<\/a> about the universe \u2014 right down to the over-a-century-old theory that it\u2019s expanding at a constant rate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are, in cosmology, using a model that was first formulated in 1922,\u201d coorganizer and Oxford cosmologist Subir Sarkar told the newspaper, in an apparent reference to the year Russian astronomer Alexander Friedmann outlined the possibility of cosmic expansion based on Einstein\u2019s general theory of relativity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of high-profile astronomers are set to convene at London\u2019s Royal Society to question some of the most fundamental aspects of our understanding of the universe. As The Guardian reports, the luminaries of cosmology will be re-examining some basic assumptions about the universe \u2014 right down to the over-a-century-old theory that it\u2019s expanding at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187517","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}