{"id":189998,"date":"2024-05-24T19:22:57","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T00:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/new-theory-of-gravity-solves-accelerating-universe"},"modified":"2024-05-24T19:22:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T00:22:57","slug":"new-theory-of-gravity-solves-accelerating-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/new-theory-of-gravity-solves-accelerating-universe","title":{"rendered":"New theory of gravity solves accelerating universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-theory-of-gravity-solves-accelerating-universe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The universe is expanding at an accelerating rate but Einstein\u2019s theory of General Relativity and our knowledge of particle physics predict that this shouldn\u2019t be happening. Most cosmologists pin their hopes on Dark Energy to solve the problem. But, as Claudia de Rham argues, Einstein\u2019s theory of gravity is incorrect over cosmic scales, her new theory of Massive Gravity limits gravity\u2019s force in this regime, explains why acceleration is happening, and eliminates the need for Dark Energy.<\/p>\n<p>You can see Claudia de Rham live, debating in \u2018Dark Energy and The Universe\u2019 alongside Priya Natarajan and Chris Lintott and \u2018Faster Than Light\u2019 with Tim Maudlin and Jo\u00e3o Magueijo at the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/howthelightgetsin.org\/festivals\/hay\" target=\"_blank\">HowTheLightGetsIn Festival<\/a> on May 24th-27th in Hay-on-Wye.<\/p>\n<p>This article is presented in association with <a href=\"http:\/\/closertotruth.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Closer To Truth<\/a>, an esteemed partner for the 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/howthelightgetsin.org\/festivals\/hay\" target=\"_blank\">HowTheLightGetsIn Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The universe is expanding at an accelerating rate but Einstein\u2019s theory of General Relativity and our knowledge of particle physics predict that this shouldn\u2019t be happening. Most cosmologists pin their hopes on Dark Energy to solve the problem. But, as Claudia de Rham argues, Einstein\u2019s theory of gravity is incorrect over cosmic scales, her new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189998","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=189998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}