{"id":34571,"date":"2017-02-14T23:24:36","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T07:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/brand-new-maths-could-finally-explain-how-disturbances-propagate-through-space-time"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:52:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:52:28","slug":"brand-new-maths-could-finally-explain-how-disturbances-propagate-through-space-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/brand-new-maths-could-finally-explain-how-disturbances-propagate-through-space-time","title":{"rendered":"Brand New Maths Could Finally Explain How Disturbances Propagate Through Space-Time"},"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\/AVLUxtU3BUM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Universe as we know it is made up of a continuum of space and time \u2014 a space-time fabric that\u2019s curved by massive objects such as stars and black holes, and which dictates the movement of matter.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Einstein\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/live-update-big-gravitational-wave-announcement-is-happening-right-now\">gravitational waves<\/a>, we know disturbances can propagate through both space and time. But what\u2019s less understood is exactly <em>how<\/em> that happens when properties of the fabric is continuously shifting.<\/p>\n<p>That could soon be about to change. Researchers have just come up with a brand new mathematical framework that could finally explain how disturbances move through a dynamic space-time fabric \u2014 a concept known as \u2018field patterns\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/mathematicians-might-finally-be-able-to-explain-how-disturbances-propagate-through-the-fabric-of-space-time\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/mathematicians-might-finally-be-...space-time<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Universe as we know it is made up of a continuum of space and time \u2014 a space-time fabric that\u2019s curved by massive objects such as stars and black holes, and which dictates the movement of matter. Thanks to Einstein\u2019s gravitational waves, we know disturbances can propagate through both space and time. But what\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,2229,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-mathematics","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34571","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34571"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48870,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34571\/revisions\/48870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}