{"id":87081,"date":"2019-01-26T16:02:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T00:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/new-paper-a-mirror-image-of-our-universe-existed-before-the-big-bang"},"modified":"2019-01-26T16:02:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T00:02:33","slug":"new-paper-a-mirror-image-of-our-universe-existed-before-the-big-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/new-paper-a-mirror-image-of-our-universe-existed-before-the-big-bang","title":{"rendered":"New Paper: A \u2018Mirror Image\u2019 of Our Universe Existed Before The Big Bang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-paper-a-mirror-image-of-our-universe-existed-before-the-big-bang2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Big Bang didn\u2019t just result in our familiar universe, according to a mind-bending new theory \u2014 it also generated a second \u201canti-universe\u201d that extended backwards in time, like a mirror image of our own.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/physicsworld.com\/a\/our-universe-has-antimatter-partner-on-the-other-side-of-the-big-bang-say-physicists\/\">new story<\/a> in Physics World explores the new theory, which was proposed by a trio of Canadian physicists who say that it could explain the existence of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/dark-matter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"dark matter\">dark matter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new theory, which is laid out in a <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.121.251301\">recent paper<\/a> in the journal Physical Review of Letters, aims to preserve a rule of physics called CPT symmetry. In the anti-universe before the Big Bang, it suggests, time ran backwards and the cosmos were made of antimatter instead of matter.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-mirror-image-of-our-universe-before-the-big-bang-could-explain-dark-matter\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-mirror-image-of-our-universe-...ark-matter<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Bang didn\u2019t just result in our familiar universe, according to a mind-bending new theory \u2014 it also generated a second \u201canti-universe\u201d that extended backwards in time, like a mirror image of our own. A new story in Physics World explores the new theory, which was proposed by a trio of Canadian physicists who [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87081","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}