{"id":96434,"date":"2019-09-19T16:22:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T23:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/what-came-before-the-big-bang-a-trip-through-cosmology-multiverses-fifth-dimensions-and-a-big-bounce"},"modified":"2019-09-19T16:22:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T23:22:50","slug":"what-came-before-the-big-bang-a-trip-through-cosmology-multiverses-fifth-dimensions-and-a-big-bounce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/what-came-before-the-big-bang-a-trip-through-cosmology-multiverses-fifth-dimensions-and-a-big-bounce","title":{"rendered":"What came before the Big Bang? A trip through cosmology, multiverses, fifth dimensions and a big bounce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nRhx_8gVTs0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Where were you before you were conceived?<\/p>\n<p>The question itself has no meaning: there was no \u201cyou\u201d to be anywhere at all.<\/p>\n<p>Asking questions like \u201cwhat happened before the Big Bang?\u201d is similarly meaningless.<\/p>\n<p>Confused? You see, the birth of the Universe is not just the birth of subatomic particles and energy, it is also the beginning of time and space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where were you before you were conceived? The question itself has no meaning: there was no \u201cyou\u201d to be anywhere at all. Asking questions like \u201cwhat happened before the Big Bang?\u201d is similarly meaningless. Confused? You see, the birth of the Universe is not just the birth of subatomic particles and energy, it is also [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96434","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=96434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}