{"id":213470,"date":"2025-05-07T10:12:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T15:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/ask-ethan-is-dark-energy-just-leftover-momentum-from-the-big-bang"},"modified":"2025-05-07T10:12:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T15:12:24","slug":"ask-ethan-is-dark-energy-just-leftover-momentum-from-the-big-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/ask-ethan-is-dark-energy-just-leftover-momentum-from-the-big-bang","title":{"rendered":"Ask Ethan: Is dark energy just leftover momentum from the Big Bang?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ask-ethan-is-dark-energy-just-leftover-momentum-from-the-big-bang2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since 1998, we\u2019ve known our Universe isn\u2019t just expanding, but the expansion is accelerating. Could the Big Bang itself be the reason why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1998, we\u2019ve known our Universe isn\u2019t just expanding, but the expansion is accelerating. Could the Big Bang itself be the reason why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213470","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=213470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}