{"id":205219,"date":"2025-02-02T07:03:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T13:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/baffling-discovery-about-the-universe-expanding-defies-our-understanding-of-physics"},"modified":"2025-02-02T07:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T13:03:14","slug":"baffling-discovery-about-the-universe-expanding-defies-our-understanding-of-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/baffling-discovery-about-the-universe-expanding-defies-our-understanding-of-physics","title":{"rendered":"Baffling discovery about the universe expanding defies our understanding of physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/baffling-discovery-about-the-universe-expanding-defies-our-understanding-of-physics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study has revealed the universe is expanding too quickly for our current understanding of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indy100.com\/topic\/physics\" target=\"_blank\">physics<\/a> to explain.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indy100.com\/science-tech\/twin-expansion-universe-multiverse\" target=\"_blank\">expansion of the universe<\/a> is described using a unit of measurement called the Hubble constant. Determining the universe\u2019s expansion rate has been a major point of intrigue since 1929, when Edwin Hubble first discovered that our universe is expanding.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indy100.com\/topic\/big-bang\" target=\"_blank\">universe began with the Big Bang<\/a>, a rapid expansion from an initial state of high density and pressure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study has revealed the universe is expanding too quickly for our current understanding of physics to explain. The expansion of the universe is described using a unit of measurement called the Hubble constant. Determining the universe\u2019s expansion rate has been a major point of intrigue since 1929, when Edwin Hubble first discovered that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205219","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=205219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}