{"id":85867,"date":"2018-12-15T21:22:21","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T05:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/if-energy-cant-be-created-where-did-it-come-from-in-the-first-place"},"modified":"2018-12-15T21:22:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T05:22:21","slug":"if-energy-cant-be-created-where-did-it-come-from-in-the-first-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/if-energy-cant-be-created-where-did-it-come-from-in-the-first-place","title":{"rendered":"If energy can\u2019t be created, where did it come from in the first place?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/if-energy-cant-be-created-where-did-it-come-from-in-the-first-place.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re taught at school that energy can\u2019t be created, merely converted from one form to another. But at the birth of the Universe \u2013 that is, everything \u2013 the energy needed for the Big Bang must have come from somewhere. Many cosmologists think its origin lies in so-called quantum uncertainty, which is known to allow energy to emerge literally from nowhere. What isn\u2019t clear, however, is why this cosmic energy persisted long enough to drive the Big Bang.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/space\/if-energy-cant-be-created-where-did-it-come-from-in-the-first-place\/\">https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/space\/if-energy-cant-be-created...rst-place\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re taught at school that energy can\u2019t be created, merely converted from one form to another. But at the birth of the Universe \u2013 that is, everything \u2013 the energy needed for the Big Bang must have come from somewhere. Many cosmologists think its origin lies in so-called quantum uncertainty, which is known to allow [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,32,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-education","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85867","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=85867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}