04/30/2026
So if there are equal amounts of matter and antimatter once upon a time, then the mystery is why didn't they all cancel out and annihilate each other at the beginning of the universe? Because remember, everything you see and touch is made of matter, which means--
ESQUIVEL: A minuscule amount of matter survived this huge war.
BARBER: So why is antimatter basically nonexistent? Why do we have a matter-dominated universe now?
ESQUIVEL: So that's one of the biggest questions that we as particle physicists are trying to answer is like, why are we here? Because that shouldn't have been the case with the understanding of physics as we know it right now
At the beginning of the universe, annihilation reigned supreme. Equal amounts of matter and antimatter collided. There should have been nothing left. And, yet, here we all are. Matter won out. The question is: why? Scientists are probing the mysteries of a ghostly subatomic particle for answers. To....
