{"id":14058,"date":"2014-03-21T19:18:51","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T18:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=14058"},"modified":"2014-03-21T19:18:51","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T18:18:51","slug":"understanding-our-universe-2-detection-of-primordial-gravitational-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=14058","title":{"rendered":"Understanding our universe (2): detection of primordial gravitational waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t fully understand it, but I&#8217;m excited by the news this week that scientists have for the first time found convincing evidence for the existence of\u00a0primordial gravitational waves &#8211; described as the first tremors of the Big Bang that created our universe and ultimately us.<\/p>\n<p>As one newspaper put it: &#8220;The minuscule ripples in space-time are the last prediction of\u00a0Albert Einstein&#8217;s 1916 general theory of relativity to be verified.&#8221; He would be thrilled, I&#8217;m sure. I know it&#8217;s taken a while but, after all, time is relative.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">You can read more <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2014\/mar\/17\/primordial-gravitational-wave-discovery-physics-bicep\">here<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t fully understand it, but I&#8217;m excited by the news this week that scientists have for the first time found convincing evidence for the existence of\u00a0primordial gravitational waves &#8211; described as the first tremors of the Big Bang that created our universe and ultimately us. As one newspaper put it: &#8220;The minuscule ripples in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14058"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14062,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14058\/revisions\/14062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}