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Landmark Calculation Clears the Way To Answering How Matter Is Formed

First time accepted submitter smazsyr writes "An international collaboration of scientists is reporting in landmark detail the decay process of a subatomic particle called a kaon – information that may help answer fundamental questions about how the universe began. The calculation in the study required 54 million processor hours on the IBM BlueGene/P supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory, the equivalent of 281 days of computing with 8,000 processors. 'This calculation brings us closer to answering fundamental questions about how matter formed in the early universe and why we, and everything else we observe today, are made of matter and not anti-matter,' says a co-author of the paper."

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  1. Re:Just another step closer... by camperdave · · Score: 1, Troll

    Sorry, when was it conclusively proven that God doesn't exist? Last I heard, the only instruments we had for detecting the spiritual realm was some thetan e-meters.

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