{"id":221646,"date":"2014-03-18T18:42:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T18:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/03\/18\/skunkbear-scientists-studying-cosmic-microwave\/"},"modified":"2018-09-23T11:58:34","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T11:58:34","slug":"skunkbear-scientists-studying-cosmic-microwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/03\/18\/skunkbear-scientists-studying-cosmic-microwave\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-221646 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/03\/18\/skunkbear-scientists-studying-cosmic-microwave\/attachment\/221647\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/tumblr_n2lpxcmnIs1t5fphqo1_r1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/tumblr_n2lpxcmnIs1t5fphqo1_r1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/tumblr_n2lpxcmnIs1t5fphqo1_r1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skunkbear.tumblr.com\/post\/79908310875\/scientists-studying-cosmic-microwave-background\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">skunkbear<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Scientists studying cosmic microwave background (the faint afterglow of the Big Bang) have detected a signal generated a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang began.\u00a0 They\u2019ve found gravitational waves \u2014 ripples in the fabric of space-time.\u00a0 Physicists are especially excited (and they\u2019re trying their best to get their non-physicist friends excited too) because studying these waves could help bridge the divide between our understanding of gravity and quantum mechanics. You can hear more about it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/03\/17\/290894371\/out-of-antarctica-a-grand-slam-that-leads-back-to-the-big-bang\" title=\"NPR Story\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Image credit: This is the telescope they used to detect the gravitational waves.\u00a0 It\u2019s called the <a href=\"http:\/\/pole.uchicago.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">South Pole Telescope<\/a>, and it was photographed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/elisfanclub\/5673720568\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eli Duke.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>skunkbear: Scientists studying cosmic microwave background (the faint afterglow of the Big Bang) have detected a signal generated a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang began.\u00a0 They\u2019ve found gravitational waves \u2014 ripples in the fabric of space-time.\u00a0 Physicists are especially excited (and they\u2019re trying their best to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/03\/18\/skunkbear-scientists-studying-cosmic-microwave\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[2036,10464,22843,5181,16984,13796,381,22846,22842,185,22844,22845,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221648,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221646\/revisions\/221648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}