{"id":214034,"date":"2025-05-14T18:15:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T23:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/cosmic-afterglow-revelation-may-rewrite-the-history-of-the-universe"},"modified":"2025-05-14T18:15:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T23:15:26","slug":"cosmic-afterglow-revelation-may-rewrite-the-history-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/cosmic-afterglow-revelation-may-rewrite-the-history-of-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic afterglow revelation may \u201crewrite the history of the universe\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cosmic-afterglow-revelation-may-rewrite-the-history-of-the-universe2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He told <em>Newsweek<\/em> that the unexpected result \u201cupsets the usual interpretation of the nature of the CMB. It essentially means that we do not have solid evidence for a hot big bang. Taking the observed CMB and subtracting this foreground leaves too little for the hot big bang to be real.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(The \u201chot big bang\u201d refers to how the universe started in a hot, dense, state and has been cooling and expanding ever since.) <\/p>\n<p>Kroupa added: \u201cThis shocking result means that we now need to revisit the very foundations of everything we know about cosmology, gravitation and the evolution of the Universe and how galaxies came to be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He told Newsweek that the unexpected result \u201cupsets the usual interpretation of the nature of the CMB. It essentially means that we do not have solid evidence for a hot big bang. Taking the observed CMB and subtracting this foreground leaves too little for the hot big bang to be real.\u201d (The \u201chot big bang\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214034","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}