{"id":90099,"date":"2019-04-29T12:02:42","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T19:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/the-universe-might-be-a-billion-years-younger-than-we-thought"},"modified":"2019-04-29T12:02:42","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T19:02:42","slug":"the-universe-might-be-a-billion-years-younger-than-we-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/the-universe-might-be-a-billion-years-younger-than-we-thought","title":{"rendered":"The Universe Might Be a Billion Years Younger Than We Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-universe-might-be-a-billion-years-younger-than-we-thought2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New data from the Hubble Space Telescope confirms that the universe is <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/hubble-data-universe-expanding-faster\">expanding nine percent<\/a> more rapidly than theoretical calculations predicted.<\/p>\n<p>Those original calculations were based on data from the early universe, so many scientists suspected that <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/bizarre-theory-something-tampered-early-universe\">something sped up the works<\/a>. But the new Hubble data suggests that the universe could be substantially younger than previously believed \u2014 perhaps by as much as a billion years, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/fac50d45a19f4239848b1712cfd22c36\">according to <em>the Associated Press<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/universe-billion-years-younger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New data from the Hubble Space Telescope confirms that the universe is expanding nine percent more rapidly than theoretical calculations predicted. Those original calculations were based on data from the early universe, so many scientists suspected that something sped up the works. But the new Hubble data suggests that the universe could be substantially younger [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90099","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=90099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}