{"id":791002,"date":"2024-11-08T10:42:03","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T15:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=791002"},"modified":"2024-11-08T10:42:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T15:42:03","slug":"why-does-our-universe-have-something-instead-of-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=791002","title":{"rendered":"Why does our universe have something instead of nothing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">The universe is full of matter<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Mohd. Afuza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we hand over the keyboard to a physicist or mathematician to tell you about fascinating ideas from their corner of the universe. You can\u00a0sign up for Lost in Space-Time here.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As an astrophysicist, I spend a lot of time thinking about nothing. Literally. The question of why there is \u201csomething\u201d instead of \u201cnothing\u201d truly keeps me awake many nights \u2013 but I draw solace from knowing that thinkers have wrestled with this topic for perhaps as long\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2454502-why-does-our-universe-have-something-instead-of-nothing\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The universe is full of matter Mohd. Afuza\/Shutterstock The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we hand over the keyboard to a physicist or&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":791003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-791002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=791002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/791003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=791002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=791002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=791002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}