{"id":25798,"date":"2016-05-17T14:47:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T21:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/what-is-the-multiverse-and-why-do-we-think-it-exists"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:22:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:22:23","slug":"what-is-the-multiverse-and-why-do-we-think-it-exists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/what-is-the-multiverse-and-why-do-we-think-it-exists","title":{"rendered":"What is the Multiverse, and why do we think it exists?"},"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\/08LBltePDZw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Whether these Universes are similar or different to our own, whether they have the same physical laws and properties, whether they have the same fundamental constants, particles and interactions, we do not know.<\/p>\n<p>And at the same time, our very best laws of nature tell us that this is reality: we are a tiny fraction of our observable Universe, which is a tiny bit of the unobservable Universe, which is just one of a tremendous number of Universes in a multiverse that\u2019s constantly generating new ones, and has been for billions of years. And that\u2019s the Multiverse we live in, to the best of our knowledge!<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/starts-with-a-bang\/what-is-the-multiverse-and-why-do-we-think-it-exists-728bc534496e#.3zs97z8kv\">https:\/\/medium.com\/starts-with-a-bang\/what-is-the-multiverse....3zs97z8kv<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether these Universes are similar or different to our own, whether they have the same physical laws and properties, whether they have the same fundamental constants, particles and interactions, we do not know. And at the same time, our very best laws of nature tell us that this is reality: we are a tiny fraction [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25798","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61790,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25798\/revisions\/61790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}