{"id":25666,"date":"2010-06-24T10:46:43","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T10:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/06\/24\/given-enough-time-the-most-imp\/"},"modified":"2010-06-24T10:46:43","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T10:46:43","slug":"given-enough-time-the-most-imp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/24\/given-enough-time-the-most-imp\/","title":{"rendered":"Given enough time, the most improbable things happen.  Probably."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it possible for all the oxygen molecules in the room, which are moving around randomly, to randomly all move to one corner so everyone is breathing just nitrogen for a while and they die?<\/p>\n<p>Is is possible for a World Cup soccer game to have a score of, say, 24 to one?<\/p>\n<p>Is is possible for a tennis match to go on for several days because, after all, there is no limit on how many times they can bounce the ball back and forth across the net?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/sports\/tennis\/wimbledon10\/news\/story?id=5322284\">Yes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it possible for all the oxygen molecules in the room, which are moving around randomly, to randomly all move to one corner so everyone is breathing just nitrogen for a while and they die? Is is possible for a World Cup soccer game to have a score of, say, 24 to one? Is is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/24\/given-enough-time-the-most-imp\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Given enough time, the most improbable things happen.  Probably.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6FY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}