{"id":18957,"date":"2015-10-31T16:47:37","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T23:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/why-is-the-universe-flat"},"modified":"2017-04-24T23:51:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T06:51:58","slug":"why-is-the-universe-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/why-is-the-universe-flat","title":{"rendered":"Why is the universe flat?"},"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\/MTUsOWtxKKA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Cosmic inflation is a theory that was proposed in the 1980s by cosmologist Alan Guth to answer some of the most fundamental questions of the origins of our universe. It also solved the Horizon Problem and the Flatness Problem.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=physicswoman\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=physicswoman\" rel=\"nofollow\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=physicswoman\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=physicswoman<\/a><\/a><br \/> Instagram: <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/thephysicsgirl\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/thephysicsgirl\" rel=\"nofollow\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/thephysicsgirl\">http:\/\/instagram.com\/thephysicsgirl<\/a><\/a><br \/> Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physicsgirl.org\/twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/www.physicsgirl.org\/twitter\" rel=\"nofollow\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physicsgirl.org\/twitter\">http:\/\/www.physicsgirl.org\/twitter<\/a><\/a><br \/> Facebook: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physicsgirl.org\/facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/www.physicsgirl.org\/facebook\" rel=\"nofollow\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physicsgirl.org\/facebook\">http:\/\/www.physicsgirl.org\/facebook<\/a><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.physicsgirl.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/www.physicsgirl.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physicsgirl.org\/\">http:\/\/www.physicsgirl.org\/<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MTUsOWtxKKA&feature=share\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cosmic inflation is a theory that was proposed in the 1980s by cosmologist Alan Guth to answer some of the most fundamental questions of the origins of our universe. It also solved the Horizon Problem and the Flatness Problem. Subscribe \u2014 https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=physicswoman Instagram: http:\/\/instagram.com\/thephysicsgirl Twitter: http:\/\/www.physicsgirl.org\/twitter Facebook: http:\/\/www.physicsgirl.org\/facebook http:\/\/www.physicsgirl.org\/ Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18957","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45392,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18957\/revisions\/45392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}