{"id":5396,"date":"2008-06-08T07:19:12","date_gmt":"2008-06-08T07:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=5396"},"modified":"2008-06-08T07:31:53","modified_gmt":"2008-06-08T07:31:53","slug":"a-time-before-the-big-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2008\/06\/a-time-before-the-big-bang\/","title":{"rendered":"A Time Before the Big Bang?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientist now believe our universe may have bubbled off from a parent one. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"blocked\"><p>Their model suggests that new universes could be created spontaneously from apparently empty space. From inside the parent universe, the event would be surprisingly unspectacular. <\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/7440217.stm\" class=\"external external_icon\">The inspiration for their theory isn&#8217;t just an explanation for the Big Bang our Universe experienced 13.7 billion years ago, but lies in an attempt to explain one of the largest mysteries in physics &#8211; why time seems to move in one direction.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The laws that govern physics on a microscopic scale are completely reversible, and yet, as Professor Carroll commented, &#8220;no one gets confused about which is yesterday and which is tomorrow&#8221;. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Other Universal news:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=4829\">HOW TO: Create a Baby Universe<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=5357\">We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re Just Bacteria of the Universal Body<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=5164\">There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a Hole in the Universe<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=4370\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6And The Universe was Mapped\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6And it was Just Okay<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/?p=6011\" class=\"external external_icon\">warren ellis<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/7440217.stm\" class=\"external external_icon\">bbc news<\/a> )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientist now believe our universe may have bubbled off from a parent one. Their model suggests that new universes could be created spontaneously from apparently empty space. From inside the parent universe, the event would be surprisingly unspectacular. [&#8230;] The inspiration for their theory isn&#8217;t just an explanation for the Big Bang our Universe experienced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,81],"tags":[160,116,78,159],"class_list":["post-5396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-space","tag-multiverse","tag-proof-of-evolution","tag-timey-wimey","tag-universe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}