{"id":86575,"date":"2019-01-10T09:23:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T17:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/theres-a-glitch-at-the-edge-of-the-universe-that-could-remake-physics"},"modified":"2019-01-10T09:23:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T17:23:06","slug":"theres-a-glitch-at-the-edge-of-the-universe-that-could-remake-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/theres-a-glitch-at-the-edge-of-the-universe-that-could-remake-physics","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a glitch at the edge of the universe that could remake physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/theres-a-glitch-at-the-edge-of-the-universe-that-could-remake-physics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One mysterious number determines how physics, chemistry and biology work. But controversial experimental hints suggest it\u2019s not one number at all.<\/p>\n<p>By Michael Brooks<\/p>\n<p>IT IS a well-kept secret, but we know the answer to life, the universe and everything. It\u2019s not 42 \u2013 it\u2019s 1\/137.<\/p>\n<p>This immutable number determines how stars burn, how chemistry happens and even whether atoms exist at all. Physicist Richard Feynman, who knew a thing or two about it, called it \u201cone of the greatest damn mysteries of physics: a magic number that comes to us with no understanding\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg24031982-200-theres-a-glitch-at-the-edge-of-the-universe-that-could-remake-physics\/\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg24031982&#45;200-ther...e-physics\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One mysterious number determines how physics, chemistry and biology work. But controversial experimental hints suggest it\u2019s not one number at all. By Michael Brooks IT IS a well-kept secret, but we know the answer to life, the universe and everything. It\u2019s not 42 \u2013 it\u2019s 1\/137. This immutable number determines how stars burn, how chemistry [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86575","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}