{"id":3921576,"date":"2025-08-21T12:03:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T17:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/what-happened-before-the-big-bang-computational-method-may-provide-answers\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T12:03:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T17:03:18","slug":"what-happened-before-the-big-bang-computational-method-may-provide-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/what-happened-before-the-big-bang-computational-method-may-provide-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"What happened before the Big Bang? Computational method may provide answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>We&#8217;re often told it is &#8220;unscientific&#8221; or &#8220;meaningless&#8221; to ask what happened before the Big Bang. But a new paper by FQxI cosmologist Eugene Lim, of King&#8217;s College London, UK, and astrophysicists Katy Clough, of Queen Mary University of London, UK, and Josu Aurrekoetxea, at Oxford University, UK, published in Living Reviews in Relativity, proposes a way forward: using complex computer simulations to numerically (rather than exactly) solve Einstein&#8217;s equations for gravity in extreme situations.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-08-big-method.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re often told it is &#8220;unscientific&#8221; or &#8220;meaningless&#8221; to ask what happened before the Big Bang. But a new paper by FQxI cosmologist Eugene Lim, of King&#8217;s College London, UK, and astrophysicists Katy Clough, of Queen Mary University of London, UK, and Josu Aurrekoetxea, at Oxford University, UK, published in Living Reviews in Relativity, proposes [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3921576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3921576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3921576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3921576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3921576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}