{"id":183533,"date":"2021-05-24T12:01:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T11:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=183533"},"modified":"2021-05-01T04:42:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T03:42:08","slug":"did-time-start-at-the-big-bang-what-happened-before-the-big-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/05\/did-time-start-at-the-big-bang-what-happened-before-the-big-bang\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Time Start at the Big Bang? What Happened before the Big Bang?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/pbs-spacetime-logo.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-183535\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/pbs-spacetime-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>Our universe started with the big bang. But only for the right definition of \u201cour universe\u201d. And of \u201cstarted\u201d for that matter. In fact, probably the Big Bang is nothing like what you were taught.\u00a0<strong><em>Simply fascinating!<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">In this invigorating PBS segment, New York-based Australian astrophysicist Matt O\u2019Dowd delves into the science and splendor of when time actually began and what that illuminates about the nature of a universe which contains everything we know, including the mind that does the knowing, yet one which we are still getting to know:<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K8gV05nS7mc<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>In this next segment, O\u2019Dowd considers the possibilities, as presently understood, of what might have happened before the Big Bang:<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=chsLw2siRW0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>BONUS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/briefhistoryoftime_stephen-hawking.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-183536 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/briefhistoryoftime_stephen-hawking-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/briefhistoryoftime_stephen-hawking-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/briefhistoryoftime_stephen-hawking.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our universe started with the big bang. But only for the right definition of \u201cour universe\u201d. And of \u201cstarted\u201d for that matter. In fact, probably the Big Bang is nothing like what you were taught.\u00a0Simply fascinating!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[936,2226,939,2335,121,2333,1157,2486,938],"class_list":["post-183533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips","tag-astronomy","tag-big-bang-theory","tag-cosmology","tag-cosmos","tag-einstein","tag-hubbles-law","tag-space-science","tag-stephen-hawking","tag-universe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}