{"id":90367,"date":"2019-05-07T02:02:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T09:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/what-happened-before-the-big-bang"},"modified":"2019-05-07T02:02:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T09:02:36","slug":"what-happened-before-the-big-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/what-happened-before-the-big-bang","title":{"rendered":"What happened before the Big Bang?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-happened-before-the-big-bang2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In trying to answer such questions, scientists bump up against the limits of the laws of physics. Existing theories can account for the evolution of the universe from its earliest moments \u2014 from a fraction of a second after the Big Bang \u2014 but the question of what came before has been among the most vexing in all of science.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s my life\u2019s work to try to answer that question,\u201d University of Toronto physicist Ren\u00e9e Hlo\u017eek says.<\/p>\n<p>This image represents the evolution of the universe, starting with the Big Bang. The red arrow marks the flow of time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/science\/what-happened-big-bang-ncna995216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In trying to answer such questions, scientists bump up against the limits of the laws of physics. Existing theories can account for the evolution of the universe from its earliest moments \u2014 from a fraction of a second after the Big Bang \u2014 but the question of what came before has been among the most [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,385,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-evolution","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90367","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}