{"id":98210,"date":"2019-11-06T16:03:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T00:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/the-universe-may-be-round-and-that-would-be-bad-news-for-physicists"},"modified":"2019-11-06T16:03:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T00:03:20","slug":"the-universe-may-be-round-and-that-would-be-bad-news-for-physicists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/the-universe-may-be-round-and-that-would-be-bad-news-for-physicists","title":{"rendered":"The Universe May Be Round\u2014and That Would Be Bad News for Physicists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-universe-may-be-round-and-that-would-be-bad-news-for-physicists.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists analyzing data from a defunct satellite say we should all consider that our universe might be round, rather than flat. The consequences, they explain in a new paper, could be crisis-inducing.<\/p>\n<p>Current theories of the universe, which describe its age, size, and how it evolves over time, are built around a flat spacetime. A new paper reiterates that data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/one-last-map-of-the-ancient-universe-revealed-from-defu-1827812733\" rel=\"nofollow\">final Planck satellite release<\/a> might be better explained by a round universe than a flat universe. Though not everyone agrees with the paper\u2019s conclusions, the authors write that the consequences of assuming a flat universe when the universe is actually round could be dire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists analyzing data from a defunct satellite say we should all consider that our universe might be round, rather than flat. The consequences, they explain in a new paper, could be crisis-inducing. Current theories of the universe, which describe its age, size, and how it evolves over time, are built around a flat spacetime. A [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98210","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=98210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}