{"id":83885,"date":"2018-10-23T13:22:40","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T20:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/gravitational-waves-could-reveal-how-fast-the-universe-is-expanding"},"modified":"2018-10-25T15:19:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T22:19:04","slug":"gravitational-waves-could-reveal-how-fast-the-universe-is-expanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/gravitational-waves-could-reveal-how-fast-the-universe-is-expanding","title":{"rendered":"Gravitational waves could reveal how fast the universe is expanding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/videos.dailymail.co.uk\/video\/mol\/2018\/10\/22\/5749600332798082798\/1024x576_MP4_5749600332798082798.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>Scientists believe they\u2019ve discovered a new method to pin down just how fast our universe is expanding over time.<\/p>\n<p>In a new study, a team of researchers from the University of Chicago found that studying the gravitational waves emitted by cosmic collisions could lead to more resolute predictions about how quickly the universe is expanding.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists are so confident in this method that they say they could have a \u2018precise measurement\u2019 of the universe\u2019s rate of expansion in roughly five to ten years.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-6305043\/Could-gravitational-waves-reveal-exactly-fast-universe-expanding.html\">https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-6305043\/Coul...nding.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists believe they\u2019ve discovered a new method to pin down just how fast our universe is expanding over time. In a new study, a team of researchers from the University of Chicago found that studying the gravitational waves emitted by cosmic collisions could lead to more resolute predictions about how quickly the universe is expanding. [\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-83885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83885","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=83885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84034,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83885\/revisions\/84034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}