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Evidence For Antimatter Anomaly Mounts
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."
Our universe is just another marble in someone's bag. *sigh*
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I guess that means I must be in heaven or hell.
Come to think of it, reading the comments on Slashdot does feel a little bit like Purgatory....
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So then, its like populating the roads with an equal number of Priuses and Lincoln Navigators?
Have gnu, will travel.
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Lol so the very fact that there is a universe, in which we can contemplate the laws of physics, is itself a phenomenon that the standard models can't yet explain? Nice. Seems like a minor hole :)
I rather think J B Cabell preceded MiB. Refer to "The Silver Stallion", if you can find a copy.
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Under the highest magnification of our latest scanning tunneling microscopes, new images of these anti particles reveal that they sport tiny goatees.
It should be possible to detect these anomalies by throwing bolts at them and observing the reaction. If you don't have a bolt, the older tool used was a rock covered in a handkerchief with a string tied to it.
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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.
Or on an Intel P5 Pentium.
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That's what accepted theoretical physics tell us
Your knowledge is approximately 20 years old.
Yours sincerely,
Nal Lerpil,
Accepted Theoretical Physicist
On second thought, let's not go to Camelot. It is a silly place.
Could be because we use "ordinary" matter to study the phenomena?
Short answer: No.
Whether or not we are Matter or Antimatter (in which case we'd call that matter, but that's another... ahem... matter altogether) doesn't change the fact that there is a lot more of one of the two types around. Something caused that. What we don't (or do we, now?) know is WHY.
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Antimatter does, in some respects, travel backwards in time. A positron behaves precisely as an electron would if it were going the opposite direction in time.
Except that the whole point of TFA (I know, I know) is that it doesn't quite. There must be some sort of symmetry violation in order for the universe to be matter-dominated.
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I think CP violation was used by particle physicists long before the term was hijacked and given a different meaning by law enforcement hysteria.
There's another meaning? Google just turns up the physics one, at least for me.
Well there's your problem! Don't search for Child Porn on Google, search for it on 4chan or motherless instead, you'll get many more non-physics related results!
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