{"id":88882,"date":"2019-03-22T18:43:08","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T01:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/cern-just-got-closer-to-figuring-out-why-antimatter-hasnt-annihilated-everything"},"modified":"2019-03-22T18:43:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T01:43:08","slug":"cern-just-got-closer-to-figuring-out-why-antimatter-hasnt-annihilated-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/cern-just-got-closer-to-figuring-out-why-antimatter-hasnt-annihilated-everything","title":{"rendered":"CERN Just Got Closer to Figuring Out Why Antimatter Hasn\u2019t Annihilated Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cern-just-got-closer-to-figuring-out-why-antimatter-hasnt-annihilated-everything2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why do we exist? This is arguably the most profound question there is and one that may seem completely outside the scope of particle physics.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/home.cern\/news\/press-release\/physics\/lhcb-sees-new-flavour-matter-antimatter-asymmetry\">our new experiment<\/a> at CERN\u2019s Large Hadron Collider has taken us a step closer to figuring it out.<\/p>\n<p>To understand why, let\u2019s go back in time some 13.8 billion years to the Big Bang. This event produced equal amounts of the matter you are made of and something called <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/explainer-what-is-antimatter-53414\">antimatter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/why-do-we-exist-cern-s-study-on-matter-brings-us-closer-to-an-answer\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/why-do-we-exist-cern-s-study-on...-an-answer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do we exist? This is arguably the most profound question there is and one that may seem completely outside the scope of particle physics. But our new experiment at CERN\u2019s Large Hadron Collider has taken us a step closer to figuring it out. To understand why, let\u2019s go back in time some 13.8 billion [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88882","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}