{"id":223247,"date":"2025-10-11T00:09:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T05:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/terence-tao-on-the-cosmic-distance-ladder"},"modified":"2025-10-11T00:09:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T05:09:02","slug":"terence-tao-on-the-cosmic-distance-ladder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/terence-tao-on-the-cosmic-distance-ladder","title":{"rendered":"Terence Tao on the cosmic distance ladder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YdOXS_9_P4U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Excellent visualizations and explanations here!<\/p>\n<p>(30 mins. approx.) <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The Cosmic Distance Ladder: How we learned distances in the heavens.<br \/> Patreon supporters see early views of new videos: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/3blue1brown\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/3blue1brown<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Artwork by Kurt Bruns.<br \/> Thanks to Paul Dancstep for several animations, such as the powers of 10 zoom out and the simulations of shadows on the moon.<\/p>\n<p>Terry has kindly cataloged many of the added nuances, including a few corrections, in this post:<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/terence-tao-on-the-cosmic-distance-ladder\">Continue reading \u201cTerence Tao on the cosmic distance ladder\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent visualizations and explanations here! (30 mins. approx.) The Cosmic Distance Ladder: How we learned distances in the heavens. Patreon supporters see early views of new videos: https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/3blue1brown. Artwork by Kurt Bruns. Thanks to Paul Dancstep for several animations, such as the powers of 10 zoom out and the simulations of shadows on the moon. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":715,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223247","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\/715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}