{"id":31337,"date":"2016-10-23T22:47:54","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T05:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/physicist-says-our-universe-could-have-spawned-from-a-black-hole"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:20:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:20:49","slug":"physicist-says-our-universe-could-have-spawned-from-a-black-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/physicist-says-our-universe-could-have-spawned-from-a-black-hole","title":{"rendered":"Physicist says our Universe could have spawned from a black hole"},"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\/-Ro7rprA9EM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to our best understanding of the Universe, if you travel back in time as far as you can, around 13.8 billion years or so, you\u2019ll eventually reach a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gravitational_singularity\">singularity<\/a> \u2014 a super-dense, hot, and energetic point, where the laws that govern space-time breakdown.<\/p>\n<p>Despite our best attempts, we can\u2019t peer past that singularity to see what triggered the birth of our Universe \u2014 but we do know of only one other instance in the history of our Universe where a singularity exists, and that\u2019s inside a black hole. And the two events might have more in common than you\u2019ve ever considered, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/startswithabang\/2016\/10\/20\/could-our-universe-have-arisen-from-a-black-hole\/#6c45ac1274e0\">physicist Ethan Siegel explains over at Forbes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It might sound a little crazy, but, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/startswithabang\/2016\/10\/20\/could-our-universe-have-arisen-from-a-black-hole\/#6c45ac1274e0\">Siegel reports<\/a>, from a mathematical perspective, at least, there\u2019s no reason that our own Big Bang couldn\u2019t have been the result of a star collapsing into a black hole in an alternate, four-dimensional universe.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/physicist-says-our-universe-could-have-emerged-from-a-black-hole\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/physicist-says-our-universe-coul...black-hole<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to our best understanding of the Universe, if you travel back in time as far as you can, around 13.8 billion years or so, you\u2019ll eventually reach a singularity \u2014 a super-dense, hot, and energetic point, where the laws that govern space-time breakdown. Despite our best attempts, we can\u2019t peer past that singularity to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,2229,219,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-mathematics","category-physics","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31337","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=31337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59968,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31337\/revisions\/59968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}