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  "id": 17226736,
  "title": "Physicists created a tiny universe and watched time emerge without a clock",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/30/physicists-created-a-tiny-universe-and-watched-time-emerge-without-a",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-30T11:42:36.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "ScienceDaily",
    "slug": "sciencedaily",
    "url": "https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261028234703.htm"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Scientists have created a miniature universe in the laboratory that could help answer one of the biggest mysteries in physics: What is time, and where does it come from? Using 24,000 ultracold atoms, a University of Birmingham researcher built an isolated quantum system that repeatedly expands and contracts, mimicking the Big Bang and a possible Big Crunch. Remarkably, the experiment showed that…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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