{"id":188706,"date":"2024-05-05T12:22:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T17:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/physicists-say-they-may-have-found-a-powerful-glitch-in-the-universe"},"modified":"2024-05-05T12:22:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T17:22:38","slug":"physicists-say-they-may-have-found-a-powerful-glitch-in-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/physicists-say-they-may-have-found-a-powerful-glitch-in-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Say They May Have Found a Powerful Glitch in the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-say-they-may-have-found-a-powerful-glitch-in-the-universe2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have discovered what they\u2019re calling a \u201ccosmic glitch\u201d in gravity, which could potentially help explain the universe\u2019s strange behavior on a cosmic scale.<\/p>\n<p>As detailed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.1088\/1475-7516\/2024\/03\/045\" class=\"\">new paper<\/a> published in the <i>Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics<\/i>, the team from the University of Waterloo and the University of British Columbia in Canada posit that Albert Einstein\u2019s theory of general relativity may not be sufficient to explain the <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/universe\/the-universe-is-expanding-faster-these-days-and-dark-energy-is-responsible-so-what-is-dark-energy\/\" class=\"\">accelerating expansion of the universe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Einstein\u2019s \u201cmodel of gravity has been essential for everything from theorizing the Big Bang to photographing black holes,\u201d said lead author and Waterloo mathematical physics graduate Robin Wen in a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-05-cosmic-glitch-gravity-strange-behavior.html\" class=\"\">statement about the research<\/a>. \u201cBut when we try to understand gravity on a cosmic scale, at the scale of galaxy clusters and beyond, we encounter apparent inconsistencies with the predictions of general relativity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have discovered what they\u2019re calling a \u201ccosmic glitch\u201d in gravity, which could potentially help explain the universe\u2019s strange behavior on a cosmic scale. As detailed in a new paper published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, the team from the University of Waterloo and the University of British Columbia in Canada posit [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,2229,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-mathematics","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188706","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}