{"id":199223,"date":"2024-11-11T00:27:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T06:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/the-big-bang-is-beyond-doubt-an-expert-reveals-why"},"modified":"2024-11-11T00:27:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T06:27:31","slug":"the-big-bang-is-beyond-doubt-an-expert-reveals-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/the-big-bang-is-beyond-doubt-an-expert-reveals-why","title":{"rendered":"The Big Bang Is Beyond Doubt. An Expert Reveals Why"},"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\/QMpkFde3euA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>How did everything begin? It\u2019s a question that humans have pondered for thousands of years. Over the last century or so, science has homed in on an answer: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iop.org\/explore-physics\/big-ideas-physics\/big-bang\">the Big Bang<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This describes how the Universe was born in a cataclysmic explosion almost 14 billion years ago. In a tiny <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfa.harvard.edu\/big-questions\/what-happened-early-universe\">fraction of a second<\/a>, the observable universe grew by the equivalent of a bacterium expanding to the size of the Milky Way. The early universe was extraordinarily hot and extremely dense. But how do we know this happened?<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s look first at the evidence. In 1929, the American astronomer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Edwin-Hubble\">Edwin Hubble<\/a> discovered that distant galaxies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.15.3.168\">are moving away<\/a> from each other, leading to the realisation that the universe is expanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did everything begin? It\u2019s a question that humans have pondered for thousands of years. Over the last century or so, science has homed in on an answer: the Big Bang. This describes how the Universe was born in a cataclysmic explosion almost 14 billion years ago. In a tiny fraction of a second, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199223","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}