{"id":189459,"date":"2024-05-15T13:24:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/newfound-glitch-in-einsteins-relativity-could-rewrite-the-rules-of-the-universe-study-suggests"},"modified":"2024-05-15T13:24:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:24:16","slug":"newfound-glitch-in-einsteins-relativity-could-rewrite-the-rules-of-the-universe-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/newfound-glitch-in-einsteins-relativity-could-rewrite-the-rules-of-the-universe-study-suggests","title":{"rendered":"Newfound \u2018glitch\u2019 in Einstein\u2019s relativity could rewrite the rules of the universe, study suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/newfound-glitch-in-einsteins-relativity-could-rewrite-the-rules-of-the-universe-study-suggests3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In response to these problems, the authors of the new paper came up with a simple suggestion: a tweak to Einstein\u2019s theory at different distance scales.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe modification is very simple: We assume the universal constant of gravitation is different on cosmological scales, compared to smaller (like solar system or galactic) scales,\u201d Afshordi said. \u201cWe call this a cosmic glitch.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to these problems, the authors of the new paper came up with a simple suggestion: a tweak to Einstein\u2019s theory at different distance scales. \u201cThe modification is very simple: We assume the universal constant of gravitation is different on cosmological scales, compared to smaller (like solar system or galactic) scales,\u201d Afshordi said. \u201cWe [\u2026]<\/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-189459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189459","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=189459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}