{"id":211540,"date":"2025-04-16T05:11:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T10:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/major-problem-in-physics-could-be-fixed-if-the-whole-universe-was-spinning"},"modified":"2025-04-16T05:11:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T10:11:30","slug":"major-problem-in-physics-could-be-fixed-if-the-whole-universe-was-spinning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/major-problem-in-physics-could-be-fixed-if-the-whole-universe-was-spinning","title":{"rendered":"Major Problem in Physics Could Be Fixed if The Whole Universe Was Spinning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/major-problem-in-physics-could-be-fixed-if-the-whole-universe-was-spinning.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earth rotates, the Sun rotates, the Milky Way rotates \u2013 and a new model suggests the entire Universe could be rotating. If confirmed, it could ease a significant tension in cosmology.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-physicist-explains-how-to-imagine-the-universes-mind-bending-expansion\">Universe is expanding<\/a>, but exactly how fast is a contentious question. Two different methods of measurement return two very different speeds \u2013 and as the measurements become more precise, each becomes more certain. This discrepancy is known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/we-can-t-figure-out-how-fast-the-universe-is-expanding-here-s-why\">Hubble tension<\/a>, and it\u2019s reaching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/the-hubble-tension-is-becoming-a-hubble-crisis\/\">crisis levels<\/a> in physics.<\/p>\n<p>So for a new study, physicists in Hungary and the US added a small rotation to a model of the Universe \u2013 and this mathematical massage seemed to quickly ease the tension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth rotates, the Sun rotates, the Milky Way rotates \u2013 and a new model suggests the entire Universe could be rotating. If confirmed, it could ease a significant tension in cosmology. The Universe is expanding, but exactly how fast is a contentious question. Two different methods of measurement return two very different speeds \u2013 and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,2229,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-mathematics","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211540","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}