{"id":195269,"date":"2024-08-26T18:28:15","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T23:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/gravitational-waves-may-hold-the-key-to-understanding-the-secrets-of-the-big-bang"},"modified":"2024-08-26T18:28:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T23:28:15","slug":"gravitational-waves-may-hold-the-key-to-understanding-the-secrets-of-the-big-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/gravitational-waves-may-hold-the-key-to-understanding-the-secrets-of-the-big-bang","title":{"rendered":"Gravitational waves may hold the key to understanding the secrets of the Big Bang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gravitational-waves-may-hold-the-key-to-understanding-the-secrets-of-the-big-bang2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists may have found a new way to unlock the vast secrets of the Big Bang\u2014the cosmic event thought to have kicked off the expansion of the universe billions of years ago. The revelation came in 2023, when scientists found nearly imperceptible ripples within the very fabric of space and time as we know it.<\/p>\n<p>The ripples appear to be associated directly with rapidly spinning neutrons that we call pulsar timing arrays. Researchers believe that studying gravitational waves\u2014more specifically, the low-frequency background hum they emit\u2014may allow us to learn more about the Big Bang and the universe\u2019s very beginning.<\/p>\n<p>For a long time, researchers have believed that the low-frequency background hum of gravitational waves in our universe was part of a \u201cphase transition\u201d that occurred just after the Big Bang. However, a <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.132.221001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new bit of research<\/a> could further unlock the secrets of the Big Bang and suggests that this might not be the case at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists may have found a new way to unlock the vast secrets of the Big Bang\u2014the cosmic event thought to have kicked off the expansion of the universe billions of years ago. The revelation came in 2023, when scientists found nearly imperceptible ripples within the very fabric of space and time as we know it. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195269","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}