{"id":31761,"date":"2016-11-07T15:57:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T23:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/units-of-measure-are-getting-a-fundamental-upgrade"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:16:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:16:07","slug":"units-of-measure-are-getting-a-fundamental-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/units-of-measure-are-getting-a-fundamental-upgrade","title":{"rendered":"Units of measure are getting a fundamental upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/units-of-measure-are-getting-a-fundamental-upgrade.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And a shifting speed of light could revise current views about the evolution of the infant universe. Scientists think that a period of inflation caused the newborn cosmos to expand extremely rapidly, creating a universe that is uniform across vast distances. That uniformity is in line with observations: The cosmic microwave background, light that emerged about 380,000 years after the Big Bang, is nearly the same temperature everywhere scientists look. But cosmologist Jo\u00e3o Magueijo of Imperial College London has a radical alternative to inflation: If light were speedier in the early universe, it could account for the universe\u2019s homogeneity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs soon as you raise the speed limit in the early universe,\u201d Magueijo says, \u201cyou start being able to work on explanations for why the universe is the way it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b><strong>A finely tuned universe<\/strong><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/units-measure-are-getting-fundamental-upgrade\">https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/units-measure-are-gettin...al-upgrade<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And a shifting speed of light could revise current views about the evolution of the infant universe. Scientists think that a period of inflation caused the newborn cosmos to expand extremely rapidly, creating a universe that is uniform across vast distances. That uniformity is in line with observations: The cosmic microwave background, light that emerged [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31761","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31761"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59824,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31761\/revisions\/59824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}