Monday, June 7, 2010

Why matter is what remains

The Fermi team sent protons and antiprotons into a head-on collision, which produced slightly more muons than antimuons.


So, for some reason, there is a slight excess of matter over antimatter, and when the matter and antimatter subsequently annihilate each other, a tiny excess of matter remains. And so The Glorious Accident was set in motion.


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