{"id":230008,"date":"2026-01-28T17:16:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T23:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/could-the-universe-ever-stop-expanding-new-theory-proposes-a-cosmic-off-switch"},"modified":"2026-01-28T17:16:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T23:16:57","slug":"could-the-universe-ever-stop-expanding-new-theory-proposes-a-cosmic-off-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/could-the-universe-ever-stop-expanding-new-theory-proposes-a-cosmic-off-switch","title":{"rendered":"Could the universe ever stop expanding? New theory proposes a cosmic \u2018off switch\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/could-the-universe-ever-stop-expanding-new-theory-proposes-a-cosmic-off-switch.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dark energy, the mysterious phenomenon that powers the expansion of the universe, may undergo periodic \u2018violent transitions\u2019 that reverse the growth of the cosmos, a new pre-print study hints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark energy, the mysterious phenomenon that powers the expansion of the universe, may undergo periodic \u2018violent transitions\u2019 that reverse the growth of the cosmos, a new pre-print study hints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230008","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}