{"id":96138,"date":"2019-09-12T18:42:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T01:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/study-finds-the-universe-might-be-2-billion-years-younger"},"modified":"2019-09-12T18:42:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T01:42:43","slug":"study-finds-the-universe-might-be-2-billion-years-younger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/study-finds-the-universe-might-be-2-billion-years-younger","title":{"rendered":"Study finds the universe might be 2 billion years younger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-finds-the-universe-might-be-2-billion-years-younger.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The universe is looking younger every day, it seems.<\/p>\n<p>New calculations suggest the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/universe\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">universe<\/a> could be a couple billion years younger than scientists now estimate, and even younger than suggested by two other calculations published this year that trimmed hundreds of millions of years from the age of the cosmos.<\/p>\n<p>The huge swings in scientists\u2019 estimates\u2014even this new calculation could be off by billions of years\u2014reflect <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/different+approaches\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">different approaches<\/a> to the tricky problem of figuring the universe\u2019s real age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The universe is looking younger every day, it seems. New calculations suggest the universe could be a couple billion years younger than scientists now estimate, and even younger than suggested by two other calculations published this year that trimmed hundreds of millions of years from the age of the cosmos. The huge swings in scientists\u2019 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96138","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=96138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}