{"id":520023,"date":"2010-04-07T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T19:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-6842632904577633198"},"modified":"2010-04-07T16:03:15","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T20:03:15","slug":"a-sure-thing-bet-on-the-lhc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/520023","title":{"rendered":"A sure thing bet on the LHC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I suspect overhead would eat away at the profit, but this seems like a sure thing &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/science-technology\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15814419&amp;fsrc=rss\">The Large Hadron Collider: Phew! | The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Paddy Power, an online bookmaker, is offering odds of 11 to 10 that dark matter will be found before black holes and 8 to 1 that black holes will be first. Dark energy, a mysterious force thought to drive the expansion of the universe, trails at 12 to 1. And for those who fancy a real outside bet, the firm is also offering<b> 100 to 1 that the machine will discover God<\/b>&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To make it worthwhile though you need to bet $100K to earn $1K. A CD would have comparable returns, which probably has something to do with the odds.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/5587346-6842632904577633198?l=notes.kateva.org' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suspect overhead would eat away at the profit, but this seems like a sure thing &#8230; The Large Hadron Collider: Phew! | The Economist &#8230;Paddy Power, an online bookmaker, is offering odds of 11 to 10 that dark matter will be found before black holes and 8 to 1 that black holes will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":711,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/711"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}