{"id":245695,"date":"2026-10-20T13:17:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T18:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/this-bold-theory-says-the-big-bang-wasnt-our-beginning"},"modified":"2026-10-20T13:17:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T18:17:06","slug":"this-bold-theory-says-the-big-bang-wasnt-our-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/this-bold-theory-says-the-big-bang-wasnt-our-beginning","title":{"rendered":"This bold theory says the Big Bang wasn\u2019t our beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-bold-theory-says-the-big-bang-wasnt-our-beginning.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In ekpyrotic theory, however, there is no beginning of time, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/space\/what-was-before-the-big-bang-everything-you-need-to-know\">Big Bang<\/a> is replaced with a bounce between two \u2018branes\u2019 \u2013 three-dimensional worlds in a five-dimensional space-time.<\/p>\n<p>The structure of the current Universe is determined before this bounce, so the need for inflation is avoided.<\/p>\n<p>The theory also avoids the inconvenient singularity in standard cosmology, when the Universe was somehow all crushed down to a single point before exploding in the Big Bang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In ekpyrotic theory, however, there is no beginning of time, and the Big Bang is replaced with a bounce between two \u2018branes\u2019 \u2013 three-dimensional worlds in a five-dimensional space-time. The structure of the current Universe is determined before this bounce, so the need for inflation is avoided. The theory also avoids the inconvenient singularity in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245695","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}