LHC Research May Help Explain the Universe's Matter/Antimatter Imbalance

Posted by Soulskill on Friday November 18, 2011 @11:09AM from the level-up-your-sigma dept.

suraj.sun sends this excerpt from the BBC: "Particles called D-mesons seem to decay slightly differently from their antiparticles, LHCb physicist Matthew Charles told the HCP 2011 meeting on Monday. The result may help explain why we see so much more matter than antimatter. The team stresses that further analysis will be needed to shore up the result. At the moment, they are claiming a statistical certainty of '3.5 sigma' — suggesting that there is less than a 0.05% chance that the result they see is down to chance. The team has nearly double the amount of data that they have analyzed so far, so time will tell whether the result reaches the 'five-sigma' level that qualifies it for a formal discovery."

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Re:First! by Zamphatta · 2011-11-18 12:45 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Man, a guy tries to fit in around here and he annoys people in just 31 characters. Wasn't like I wasted your time by writing a whole worthless paragraph and making you read for more than 2 seconds before moving on.