{"id":220692,"date":"2025-08-22T08:34:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/what-happened-before-the-big-bang-computational-method-may-provide-answers"},"modified":"2025-08-22T08:34:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:34:40","slug":"what-happened-before-the-big-bang-computational-method-may-provide-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/what-happened-before-the-big-bang-computational-method-may-provide-answers","title":{"rendered":"What happened before the Big Bang? Computational method may provide answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-happened-before-the-big-bang-computational-method-may-provide-answers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re often told it is \u201cunscientific\u201d or \u201cmeaningless\u201d to ask what happened before the Big Bang. But a new paper by FQxI cosmologist Eugene Lim, of King\u2019s College London, UK, and astrophysicists Katy Clough, of Queen Mary University of London, UK, and Josu Aurrekoetxea, at Oxford University, UK, published in <i>Living Reviews in Relativity<\/i>, proposes a way forward: using complex computer simulations to numerically (rather than exactly) solve Einstein\u2019s equations for gravity in extreme situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re often told it is \u201cunscientific\u201d or \u201cmeaningless\u201d to ask what happened before the Big Bang. But a new paper by FQxI cosmologist Eugene Lim, of King\u2019s College London, UK, and astrophysicists Katy Clough, of Queen Mary University of London, UK, and Josu Aurrekoetxea, at Oxford University, UK, published in Living Reviews in Relativity, proposes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,33,41,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-cosmology","category-information-science","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220692","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=220692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}