{"id":33656,"date":"2017-01-20T06:44:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T14:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/violations-of-energy-conservation-in-the-early-universe-may-explain-dark-energy"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:56:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:56:20","slug":"violations-of-energy-conservation-in-the-early-universe-may-explain-dark-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/violations-of-energy-conservation-in-the-early-universe-may-explain-dark-energy","title":{"rendered":"Violations of energy conservation in the early universe may explain dark energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/violations-of-energy-conservation-in-the-early-universe-may-explain-dark-energy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(<i>Phys.org<\/i>)\u2014Physicists have proposed that violations of energy conservation in the early universe, as predicted by certain modified theories of quantum mechanics and quantum gravity, may explain the cosmological constant problem, which is sometimes referred to as \u201cthe worst theoretical prediction in the history of physics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The physicists, Thibaut Josset and Alejandro Perez at the University of Aix-Marseille, France, and Daniel Sudarsky at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, have published a paper on their proposal in a recent issue <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe main achievement of the work was the unexpected relation between two apparently very distinct issues, namely the accelerated expansion of the universe and microscopic physics,\u201d Josset told <i>Phys.org<\/i>. \u201cThis offers a fresh look at the cosmological constant problem, which is still far from being solved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-01-violations-energy-early-universe-dark.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017&#45;01-violations-energy-early-universe-dark.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Phys.org)\u2014Physicists have proposed that violations of energy conservation in the early universe, as predicted by certain modified theories of quantum mechanics and quantum gravity, may explain the cosmological constant problem, which is sometimes referred to as \u201cthe worst theoretical prediction in the history of physics.\u201d The physicists, Thibaut Josset and Alejandro Perez at the University [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33656","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=33656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59058,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33656\/revisions\/59058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}