{"id":88863,"date":"2019-03-21T17:02:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T00:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/why-an-incredible-new-cern-observation-has-physicists-popping-champagne"},"modified":"2019-03-21T17:02:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T00:02:57","slug":"why-an-incredible-new-cern-observation-has-physicists-popping-champagne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/why-an-incredible-new-cern-observation-has-physicists-popping-champagne","title":{"rendered":"Why an Incredible New CERN Observation Has Physicists Popping Champagne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-an-incredible-new-cern-observation-has-physicists-popping-champagne2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have announced the observation of \u201cCP violation in a D meson\u201d at CERN, a discovery that will appear in physics textbooks for years to come. You\u2019re probably wondering what exactly it means.<\/p>\n<p>The Universe is full of regular matter. There\u2019s also antimatter, which exists <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/scientists-will-transport-antimatter-in-a-truck-1823162877\" rel=\"nofollow\">even here on Earth,<\/a> but there\u2019s much less of it. This new observation is important on its own, but it also takes physicists another step closer to explaining where all the antimatter has disappeared to.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/why-an-incredible-new-cern-observation-has-physicists-p-1833466787\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/why-an-incredible-new-cern-observation-h...1833466787<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have announced the observation of \u201cCP violation in a D meson\u201d at CERN, a discovery that will appear in physics textbooks for years to come. You\u2019re probably wondering what exactly it means. The Universe is full of regular matter. There\u2019s also antimatter, which exists even here on Earth, but there\u2019s much less of it. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88863","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}