{"id":209284,"date":"2025-03-20T16:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T21:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/cosmological-stasis-could-explain-dark-matter-does-that-make-sense"},"modified":"2025-03-20T16:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T21:13:07","slug":"cosmological-stasis-could-explain-dark-matter-does-that-make-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/cosmological-stasis-could-explain-dark-matter-does-that-make-sense","title":{"rendered":"\u201cCosmological Stasis\u201d Could Explain Dark Matter: Does that make sense?"},"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\/hmznUuCyVz4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Compactification of dimensions in string theory and inflationary expansion of space from Planck scale.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Check out these science courses on Brilliant! First 30 days are free and 20% off the annual premium subscription when you use our link \u279c <a href=\"https:\/\/brilliant.org\/sabine\">https:\/\/brilliant.org\/sabine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Physicists have come up with a new idea for how our universe began, and it could also explain dark matter. They say that if our universe has small extra dimensions, then these can temporarily store energy, causing a \u201ccosmological stasis\u201d in which the universe expands but nothing else happens. Then the stasis ends and dark matter remains. Sounds wild. 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