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posted by Fnord666 on Monday August 14 2017, @06:13PM   Printer-friendly
from the the-supremes dept.

Neutrinos and antineutrinos, sometimes called ghost particles because [they are so] difficult to detect, can transform from one type to another. The international T2K Collaboration announces a first indication that the dominance of matter over antimatter may originate from the fact that neutrinos and antineutrinos behave differently during those oscillations. This is an important milestone towards the understanding of our Universe. A team of particle physicists from the University of Bern provided important contributions to the experiment.

The Universe is primarily made of matter and the apparent lack of antimatter is one of the most intriguing questions of today's science. The T2K collaboration, with participation of the group of the University of Bern, announced today in a colloquium held at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) in Tsukuba, Japan, that it found indication that the symmetry between matter and antimatter (so called "CP-Symmetry") is violated for neutrinos with 95% probability.

http://www.unibe.ch/news/media_news/media_relations_e/media_releases/2017_e/media_releases_2017/possible_explanation_for_the_dominance_of_matter_over_antimatter_in_the_universe/index_eng.html

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 14 2017, @07:24PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 14 2017, @07:24PM (#553812)

    More people drive forward than in reverse.

    ???

  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday August 14 2017, @07:50PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Monday August 14 2017, @07:50PM (#553819)

    Actually, Anit-matter was tired of the stigma associated with being "anti" (long before it got a chance of being beaten by the cops), and left the visible universe when its calls to be renamed "alt-matter" were violently ignored.

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 15 2017, @10:10AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 15 2017, @10:10AM (#554189)

    If Feynman conjectured correctly that anti-matter is just ordinary matter traveling in opposite direction to normal matter along time axis, then your analogy would be spot on: Antimatter is not there because it is gone the other way at Big Bang, i.e. there is complete symmetric anti-universe in time before BB, evolving towards back in time.