{"id":421,"date":"2008-06-06T22:31:41","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T22:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=421"},"modified":"2008-06-06T22:31:41","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T22:31:41","slug":"was-there-time-before-the-big-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/was-there-time-before-the-big-bang\/","title":{"rendered":"Was there time before the big bang?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0806.0377\">Physicists now claim<\/a> that analysis of the universe&#8217;s cosmic microwave background suggests that our universe was spun off from another one.\u00a0 One of the main conclusions hypothesised is that the second law of thermodynamics &#8211; that the universe evolves from order to disorder &#8211; does not necessarily hold true.\u00a0 Consequently, time may not just flow in one direction.\u00a0 The only way I can wrap my mind around this concept is to imagine that on a cosmic scale, time pulsates out &#8230; and in.<\/p>\n<p>It is not yet possible to draw positive conclusions, but it is novel analysis and will create a more flexible perspective in the world of science and philosophy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/7440217.stm\">BBC Report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists now claim that analysis of the universe&#8217;s cosmic microwave background suggests that our universe was spun off from another one.\u00a0 One of the main conclusions hypothesised is that the second law of thermodynamics &#8211; that the universe evolves from order to disorder &#8211; does not necessarily hold true.\u00a0 Consequently, time may not just flow &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/was-there-time-before-the-big-bang\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Was there time before the big bang?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holonics-and-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-6N","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}