{"id":98202,"date":"2019-11-06T11:22:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T19:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/everything-we-know-about-the-shape-of-the-universe-might-be-wrong"},"modified":"2019-11-06T11:22:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T19:22:39","slug":"everything-we-know-about-the-shape-of-the-universe-might-be-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/everything-we-know-about-the-shape-of-the-universe-might-be-wrong","title":{"rendered":"Everything We Know About the Shape of the Universe Might Be Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/everything-we-know-about-the-shape-of-the-universe-might-be-wrong2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everything we think we know about the shape of the universe could be wrong. Instead of being flat like a bedsheet, our universe may be curved, like a massive, inflated balloon, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the upshot of a new paper published today (Nov. 4) in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41550-019-0906-9\">Nature Astronomy<\/a>, which looks at data from the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the faint echo of the Big Bang. But not everyone is convinced; the new findings, based on data released in 2018, contradict both years of conventional wisdom and another recent study based on that same CMB data set.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/65471-photo-timeline-big-bang.html\"><strong> From Big Bang to Present: Snapshots of Our Universe Through Time<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything we think we know about the shape of the universe could be wrong. Instead of being flat like a bedsheet, our universe may be curved, like a massive, inflated balloon, according to a new study. That\u2019s the upshot of a new paper published today (Nov. 4) in the journal Nature Astronomy, which looks at [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98202","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=98202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}