{"id":220829,"date":"2025-08-23T20:09:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T01:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/what-came-before-the-big-bang-supercomputers-may-hold-the-answer"},"modified":"2025-08-23T20:09:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T01:09:25","slug":"what-came-before-the-big-bang-supercomputers-may-hold-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/what-came-before-the-big-bang-supercomputers-may-hold-the-answer","title":{"rendered":"What came before the Big Bang? Supercomputers may hold the answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-came-before-the-big-bang-supercomputers-may-hold-the-answer.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists are rethinking the universe\u2019s deepest mysteries using numerical relativity, complex computer simulations of Einstein\u2019s equations in extreme conditions. This method could help explore what happened before the Big Bang, test theories of cosmic inflation, investigate multiverse collisions, and even model cyclic universes that endlessly bounce through creation and destruction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists are rethinking the universe\u2019s deepest mysteries using numerical relativity, complex computer simulations of Einstein\u2019s equations in extreme conditions. This method could help explore what happened before the Big Bang, test theories of cosmic inflation, investigate multiverse collisions, and even model cyclic universes that endlessly bounce through creation and destruction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,12,41,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-existential-risks","category-information-science","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220829","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=220829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}