Thursday, February 2, 2017

New results from CERN - Fix to the Standard Model of physics?

Proton-proton collision in the LHCb. Credit: CERN
Of the many unanswered questions that stand in the way of the Standard Model of physics being able to adequately explain the Universe and everything in it, the mystery of matter-antimatter asymmetry is one of the biggest.

The equal amounts of matter and antimatter produced by the Big Bang should have cancelled each other out, resulting in a Universe with barely any particles, and yet, here we are. Now, new results from a Large Hadron Collider detector at CERN could be our best chance at explaining the paradox of our own existence.

For the complete story see:  Science Alert

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