{"id":71849,"date":"2017-08-09T23:43:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T06:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/scientists-the-big-bang-may-have-actually-been-the-big-bounce"},"modified":"2017-08-26T10:42:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T17:42:33","slug":"scientists-the-big-bang-may-have-actually-been-the-big-bounce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/scientists-the-big-bang-may-have-actually-been-the-big-bounce","title":{"rendered":"Scientists: The Big Bang May Have Actually Been the \u2018Big Bounce\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bcoxz1-ip6o\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of physicists from the UK and Canada have provided a simulation that supports the theory that our universe did not start out the way <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/25126-big-bang-theory.html\">the Big Bang<\/a> model proposes, but rather expanded to its current state after a period of contraction\u2014a cycle dictated by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailygalaxy.com\/my_weblog\/2007\/08\/before-the-begi.html\">the Big Bounce Theory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Big Bounce theory states that the universe follows a cycle of contraction and expansion, repeated infinitely. According to this theory, the universe did not begin with a violent explosion, but rather formed as a previous universe expanded or \u201cbounced\u201d back collapsing during the contraction phase of this endless cycle.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/new-simulation-supports-the-theory-of-the-big-bounce-instead-of-the-big-bang\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/new-simulation-supports-the-theory-of-t...-big-bang\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71849","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=71849"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72182,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71849\/revisions\/72182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}