Evidence For Antimatter Anomaly Mounts 147
sciencehabit writes "The big bang created a lot of matter—along with the same amount of antimatter, which wiped out everything and brought the universe to an untimely end. That's what accepted theoretical physics tell us—though things clearly didn't work out that way. Now, results from a U.S. particle smasher are providing new evidence for a subtle difference in the properties of matter and antimatter that may explain how the early universe survived."
James Branch Cabell (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Playing with marbles (Score:4, Informative)
Our universe is just another marble in someone's bag. *sigh*
Galaxy. It's another galaxy in someone's bag.
Summary goes a bit too far... (Score:5, Informative)
The research is certainly interesting and important (at least to physicists), but it demonstrates CP violation only in certain relatively rare particles, the neutral D mesons. CP violation has been known to exist for a while (in K and B mesons), so that really is not that ground breaking. On the other hand, as far as I know, these effects are far too small to account for the matter/antimatter imbalance in the universe and additional mechanisms are required.
Stupid (Score:5, Informative)
That's what accepted theoretical physics tell us
Your knowledge is approximately 20 years old.
Yours sincerely,
Nal Lerpil,
Accepted Theoretical Physicist