{"id":89195,"date":"2019-04-03T14:06:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T21:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/what-existed-before-the-big-bang-astronomers-have-found-a-test-to-narrow-it-down"},"modified":"2019-04-03T14:06:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T21:06:16","slug":"what-existed-before-the-big-bang-astronomers-have-found-a-test-to-narrow-it-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/what-existed-before-the-big-bang-astronomers-have-found-a-test-to-narrow-it-down","title":{"rendered":"What Existed Before The Big Bang? Astronomers Have Found a Test to Narrow It Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-existed-before-the-big-bang-astronomers-have-found-a-test-to-narrow-it-down3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today our middle-aged Universe looks eerily smooth. Too smooth, in fact.<\/p>\n<p>While a rapid growth spurt in space-time would explain what we see, science needs more than nice ideas. It needs evidence that whittles away contending arguments. We might finally know where to look for some.<\/p>\n<p>A team of physicists from the Centre for Astrophysics | Harvard &amp; Smithsonian (CfA) and Harvard University went back to the drawing board on the early Universe\u2019s evolution to give us a way to help those <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Inflation_(cosmology)\">inflation models<\/a> stand out from the crowd.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/astronomers-devise-a-way-to-test-predictions-of-a-pre-big-bang-universe?perpetual=yes&limitstart=1\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/astronomers-devise-a-way-to-tes...mitstart=1<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today our middle-aged Universe looks eerily smooth. Too smooth, in fact. While a rapid growth spurt in space-time would explain what we see, science needs more than nice ideas. It needs evidence that whittles away contending arguments. We might finally know where to look for some. A team of physicists from the Centre for Astrophysics [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,385,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-evolution","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89195","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}