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    New discovery at Cern could hint at why our universe is made up of matter and not antimatter

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    1. Potential_Wish4943 on

      I have a pet theory that antimatter doesn’t actually exist, but the phenomenon its used to explain does, and is a result of the gravitational/magnetic/whatever influence of adjacent, possibly more massive universes on ours (or possibly something higher dimensional), and that this universe of universes is structures sort of like foam, with universes being like bubbles constantly forming, expanding, combining, disappearing and reforming.

      Sort of like how way back when they thought bad smells caused diseases. They were wrong, but they weren’t stupid, were sort of on to something, and were just working with a more limited set of evidence/data.

    2. PaladinAstro on

      Seems to me if our universe was made of antimatter, we’d just call it matter. To my (extremely limited) understanding, antimatter is just an equal-opposite of matter, and thus would have a full suite of antiparticle counterparts to regular particles. They should behave much the same as our matter- just… opposite, I guess.

    3. StickFigureFan on

      It’s because the universe isn’t a nihilist that thinks nothing matters

    5. Login8 on

      So anti-matter interacts with time differently than matter interacts with time, hence the rate of decay difference?
      Since matter interacting with time is essentially where gravity comes from, perhaps anti-matter experiences gravity differently and as such would not coalesce as matter has into the celestial objects we observe. Maybe?

    6. blindfoldpeak on

      “Crucially, we found that these baryons decay to specific subatomic particles (a proton, a kaon and two pions) slightly more frequently – 5% more often – than the rate at which the same process happens with antiparticles. While small, this difference is statistically significant enough to be the first observation of differences in behaviour between baryon and antibaryon decays.”