WHY READ THIS ARTICLE?
The antimatter experiments could require physicists to rewrite their basic theories.
The results could reveal why matter exists in the world at all.
Around 13.8 billion years ago, the universe as we know it originated from a point, and huge quantities of discharged energy inflated the newborn universe with incredible speed. Expansion eventually cooled the universe sufficiently for some of the energy to condense into particles… but the very next second these all destroyed each other again, leaving a universe that could forever have been void. No gases, dust clouds, stars, planets, galaxies – just high-energy space without any matter.
This is the brief history of the universe according to physics theories which claim that when energy is converted into particles, an equal number of matter particles and antimatter particles are formed. If the two meet, they will destroy each other and be converted into energy again. So really, it’s a mystery why the universe still includes any matter, and why we
