Evidence For Antimatter Anomaly Mounts

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Evidence For Antimatter Anomaly Mounts

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 29, 2012 @08:00AM from the nature-of-things dept.

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."

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Oblig. Bad Car Analogy by PPH · 2012-02-29 08:08 · Score: 4, Funny

So then, its like populating the roads with an equal number of Priuses and Lincoln Navigators?

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1. Re:Oblig. Bad Car Analogy by Oswald+McWeany · 2012-02-29 08:21 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Yes. The Navigators, being made by Lincoln would decay at a faster rate than the Priuses made by Toyota.
  Therefore eventually there would be more Priuses on the road than Navigators.
  
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Then unmount it by hhedeshian · 2012-02-29 08:11 · Score: 5, Funny

sudo umount /dev/anomaly
1. Re:Then unmount it by masternerdguy · 2012-02-29 08:13 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I prefer recalibrating the deflector dish to deal with antimatter anomolies myself.
  
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Interesting... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-29 08:12 · Score: 4, Insightful

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 :)
1. Re:Interesting... by masternerdguy · 2012-02-29 08:14 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  And at one point we couldn't even model two point particles interacting in a collission. Just because we don't know how it works today doesn't mean we never will.
  
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2. Re:Interesting... by TheCarp · 2012-02-29 08:26 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Is that the physicists equivalent of rubbing two sticks together?
  
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3. Re:Interesting... by masternerdguy · 2012-02-29 08:33 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  All knowledge begins with "Why does X. I don't know, let's find out."
  
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4. Re:Interesting... by TheCarp · 2012-02-29 08:35 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  And all humor begins with not taking things too seriously.
  
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5. Re:Interesting... by Jenka · 2012-02-29 08:42 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Followed by "Hey Yall! Watch this!"
6. Re:Interesting... by OzPeter · 2012-02-29 09:17 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  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 :)
  Hell .. I don't even think there is an understanding as to what gravity is. And thats a lot less existential than "existence/non-existence"
  
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Indeed by Waffle+Iron · 2012-02-29 08:14 · Score: 5, Funny

Under the highest magnification of our latest scanning tunneling microscopes, new images of these anti particles reveal that they sport tiny goatees.
1. Re:Indeed by rla3rd · 2012-02-29 08:17 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Had me scared... I first read this as tiny goatses.
Summary goes a bit too far... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-29 08:49 · 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 by wzzzzrd · 2012-02-29 10:20 · Score: 4, Informative

That's what accepted theoretical physics tell us
Your knowledge is approximately 20 years old.

Yours sincerely,
Nal Lerpil,
Accepted Theoretical Physicist

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