{"id":77223,"date":"2018-03-28T03:23:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T10:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/33-angry-physicists-came-together-to-shut-down-one-theory-about-the-universe"},"modified":"2018-03-28T03:23:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T10:23:06","slug":"33-angry-physicists-came-together-to-shut-down-one-theory-about-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/33-angry-physicists-came-together-to-shut-down-one-theory-about-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"33 Angry Physicists Came Together to Shut Down One Theory About the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/33-angry-physicists-came-together-to-shut-down-one-theory-about-the-universe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists are no strangers to healthy debate. You need criticism to strengthen your ideas, and when debate is done right, both parties leave knowing more than they did when they started. But there are some things that will just make a scientist mad. One of those things? Saying their scientific theory isn\u2019t scientific. That\u2019s what a trio of physicists did in a 2017 article they published in Scientific American, which stated that the idea of an expanding universe simply isn\u2019t testable. The response from other physicists? Oh, it\u2019s on.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/curiosity.com\/topics\/33-angry-physicists-came-together-to-shut-down-one-theory-about-the-universe-curiosity\/\">https:\/\/curiosity.com\/topics\/33-angry-physicists-came-togeth...curiosity\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists are no strangers to healthy debate. You need criticism to strengthen your ideas, and when debate is done right, both parties leave knowing more than they did when they started. But there are some things that will just make a scientist mad. One of those things? Saying their scientific theory isn\u2019t scientific. That\u2019s what [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77223","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}