{"id":220147,"date":"2025-08-15T00:05:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T05:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/wild-new-theory-suggests-gravitational-waves-shaped-the-universe"},"modified":"2025-08-15T00:05:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T05:05:14","slug":"wild-new-theory-suggests-gravitational-waves-shaped-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/wild-new-theory-suggests-gravitational-waves-shaped-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"Wild New Theory Suggests Gravitational Waves Shaped The Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wild-new-theory-suggests-gravitational-waves-shaped-the-universe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just as ocean waves shape our shores, ripples in space-time may have once set the Universe on an evolutionary path that led to the cosmos as we see it today.<\/p>\n<p>A new theory suggests <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/gravitational-waves\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">gravitational waves<\/a> \u2013 rather than hypothetical particles called inflatons \u2013 drove the Universe\u2019s early expansion, and the redistribution of matter therein.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor decades, we have tried to understand the early moments of the Universe using models based on elements we have never observed,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/web.ub.edu\/en\/web\/actualitat\/w\/theory-origins-universe\">explains the first author of the paper, theoretical astrophysicist Ra\u00fal Jim\u00e9nez<\/a> of the University of Barcelona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as ocean waves shape our shores, ripples in space-time may have once set the Universe on an evolutionary path that led to the cosmos as we see it today. A new theory suggests gravitational waves \u2013 rather than hypothetical particles called inflatons \u2013 drove the Universe\u2019s early expansion, and the redistribution of matter therein. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220147","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=220147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}