{"id":86047,"date":"2018-12-22T08:02:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T16:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/stephen-hawkings-final-theory-about-our-universe-will-melt-your-brain"},"modified":"2018-12-22T08:02:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T16:02:30","slug":"stephen-hawkings-final-theory-about-our-universe-will-melt-your-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/stephen-hawkings-final-theory-about-our-universe-will-melt-your-brain","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Hawking\u2019s Final Theory About Our Universe Will Melt Your Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stephen-hawkings-final-theory-about-our-universe-will-melt-your-brain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nope. Too late already. It\u2019s been molten long ago already ha\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Groundbreaking physicist Stephen Hawking left us one last shimmering piece of brilliance before he died: his final paper, detailing his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/stephen-hawking-submitted-a-paper-on-parallel-universes-just-before-he-died?perpetual=yes&limitstart=1\">last theory on the origin of the Universe<\/a>, co-authored with Thomas Hertog from KU Leuven.<\/p>\n<p>The paper, published in the <em>Journal of High Energy Physics <\/em>in May, puts forward that the Universe is far less complex than current multiverse theories suggest.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s based around a concept called eternal inflation, first introduced in 1979 and <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prd\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevD.23.347\">published in 1981<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/stephen-hawking-s-final-theory-about-our-universe-will-melt-your-brain\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/stephen-hawking-s-final-theory-...your-brain<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nope. Too late already. It\u2019s been molten long ago already ha\u2026 Groundbreaking physicist Stephen Hawking left us one last shimmering piece of brilliance before he died: his final paper, detailing his last theory on the origin of the Universe, co-authored with Thomas Hertog from KU Leuven. The paper, published in the Journal of High Energy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,47,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-neuroscience","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86047","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\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}