{"id":234101,"date":"2026-03-26T11:03:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/how-a-one-in-a-billion-mistake-made-the-universe-possible"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:03:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:03:28","slug":"how-a-one-in-a-billion-mistake-made-the-universe-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/how-a-one-in-a-billion-mistake-made-the-universe-possible","title":{"rendered":"How a One-in-a-Billion Mistake Made the Universe Possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/negiPvWHaMc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Huge thanks to KiwiCo for sponsoring today\u2019s video! Go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiwico.com\/spacetime\">https:\/\/www.kiwico.com\/spacetime<\/a> and use code SPACETIME for 50% off your first monthly crate.<\/p>\n<p>Check Out Reactions on the Earth Month Playlist.<br \/> \u2022 Why Norway\u2019s Osmosis Power Plant Failed.<\/p>\n<p>At one-one-thousandth of a second after the Big Bang, the great annihilation event should have wiped out all matter, leaving a universe of only radiation. Why still don\u2019t know why any matter survived. Well, a new finding from the LHC brings us one step closer to understanding why there\u2019s something rather than nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Caplan Paper for Review:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2312\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2312<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord!<br \/> \/ pbsspacetime.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the Space Time Merch Store.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/how-a-one-in-a-billion-mistake-made-the-universe-possible\">Continue reading \u201cHow a One-in-a-Billion Mistake Made the Universe Possible\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huge thanks to KiwiCo for sponsoring today\u2019s video! Go to https:\/\/www.kiwico.com\/spacetime and use code SPACETIME for 50% off your first monthly crate. Check Out Reactions on the Earth Month Playlist. \u2022 Why Norway\u2019s Osmosis Power Plant Failed. At one-one-thousandth of a second after the Big Bang, the great annihilation event should have wiped out all [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}