{"id":236304,"date":"2026-05-01T10:06:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T15:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/the-universe-might-not-be-flat-and-cosmologists-are-quietly-freaking-out"},"modified":"2026-05-01T10:06:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T15:06:28","slug":"the-universe-might-not-be-flat-and-cosmologists-are-quietly-freaking-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/the-universe-might-not-be-flat-and-cosmologists-are-quietly-freaking-out","title":{"rendered":"The Universe might not be flat (and cosmologists are quietly freaking out)"},"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\/Pd9P7CibbHc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Everything we know about the shape of the Universe could be completely wrong.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the most fascinating unsolved problems in cosmology, and it almost never gets talked about outside of research papers. It\u2019s called the curvature tension, and it links in to the \\.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything we know about the shape of the Universe could be completely wrong. This is one of the most fascinating unsolved problems in cosmology, and it almost never gets talked about outside of research papers. It\u2019s called the curvature tension, and it links in to the \\.<\/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-236304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236304","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=236304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}