{"id":85187,"date":"2018-11-27T12:27:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T20:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/how-scientists-are-working-together-to-solve-one-of-the-universes-mysteries"},"modified":"2018-11-27T12:27:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T20:27:11","slug":"how-scientists-are-working-together-to-solve-one-of-the-universes-mysteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/how-scientists-are-working-together-to-solve-one-of-the-universes-mysteries","title":{"rendered":"How scientists are working together to solve one of the universe\u2019s mysteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-scientists-are-working-together-to-solve-one-of-the-universes-mysteries.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All of these facts may make it sound as though scientists know a lot about Fast Radio Bursts. In reality, we don\u2019t. For instance, though we know they\u2019re not from our galaxy, we don\u2019t know where exactly they come from. We don\u2019t know what causes them. And we\u2019re not sure whether they might be useful as <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1711.11277\">cosmological<\/a> standards to measure the large scale properties of our universe.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of theories about Fast Radio Bursts have been proposed. Some conform to standard physics. Others are more exotic, including <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1807.01976\">cosmic strings<\/a> \u2013 hypothetical, one-dimensional structures formed in the early universe \u2013 or even rather bizarre: one theory <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2124209-could-fast-radio-bursts-really-be-powering-alien-space-ships\">suggests<\/a> that aliens are responsible.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in an attempt to discover the truth about Fast Radio Bursts, we have created <a href=\"https:\/\/frbtheorycat.org\/index.php\/Main_Page\">a catalogue<\/a> that lists <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1810.05836\">each theory<\/a>, along with its pros and cons. Scientists from around the world can weigh in, and new data and discoveries will be added throughout the process.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-scientists-are-working-together-to-solve-one-of-the-universes-mysteries-106556\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-scientists-are-working-toget...ies-106556<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of these facts may make it sound as though scientists know a lot about Fast Radio Bursts. In reality, we don\u2019t. For instance, though we know they\u2019re not from our galaxy, we don\u2019t know where exactly they come from. We don\u2019t know what causes them. And we\u2019re not sure whether they might be useful [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85187","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=85187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}