While looking for insights that could explain what kept the universe from creating separate matter and antimatter galaxies, or exploding into nothingness, researchers found some evidence that the answer could be hiding in very common yet poorly understood particles known as neutrinos.Ī team of researchers led by Christopher Mauger published results from the first set of experiments that can help answer these and other questions in fundamental physics. What puzzles physicists is that most everything in the universe, people included, is made of matter, not of equal parts matter and antimatter. Antimatter can be made in a lab using high-energy particle collisions, but these events almost always create equal parts of both antimatter and matter and, when two opposing particles come in contact with one another, both are destroyed in a powerful wave of pure energy. Antimatter particles have the same mass as their counterparts but with other properties flipped for example, protons in matter have a positive charge while antiprotons are negative. In physics, antimatter is simply the “opposite” of matter.
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