The Universe Shouldn't Exist: Top Scientists

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    • Publish Date: Nov 1 2017 1:09PM
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The Universe Shouldn't Exist: Top Scientists

Equal amounts of matter and anti-matter should have instantly annihilated one another ­ why did that not happen?

Some of the world's top scientists have claimed that the universe shouldn't exist -experts say that according to the standard model of physics, the cosmos should have destroyed itself when it formed.

This is because the universe was born with equal amounts of matter and anti-matter, which must have collided and instantly annihilated one another. But this didn't happen -and scientists are still baffled as to why, reports the Daily Mail.

Researchers have spent years looking for any difference between anti-matter and matter that explains why they didn't cancel one another out when the cosmos was created. The latest possibility being probed by researchers was that matter and anti-matter may have different magnetism. But new research shows that they are identical, deepening the mystery.

Normal atoms are made up of positively-charged nuclei orbited by negatively-charged electrons. However, their antimatter counterparts are the other way round -a mirror. They have negative nuclei and positivelycharged electrons, known as positrons.

When matter and antimatter meet they instantly annihilate each other, releasing a burst of detectable energy. The Big Bang is thought to have produced equal amounts of matter and antimatter, and it should have destroyed all matter. But paradoxically today, the universe is made up mostly of ordinary matter with almost no antimatter to be found.

Over the years, a range of possibilities have been looked to explain the mystery. These include looking at differences in charge and mass between antimatter and matter.

Now a new super-precise measurement from scientists at Cern has explored whether the magnetism of matter and anti-matter is different.The test shows that they have identical magnetic properties, leading some scientists to question why the universe is still around.

The Cern team, based in Geneva, took the most precise measurement ever of the `magnetic moment' of an anti-proton -a number that measures how the particle reacts to a magnetic force. They found that the magnetic moment of anti-protons is the same as that of a proton, but with the opposite sign.

While previous research has shown that the electrical charge, mass and other properties of matter and anti-matter precisely cancel one another out, this is the first time scientists have shown this is also true of their magnetic moments. The researchers spent 10 years developing a technique to measure this property in both protons and anti-protons.

Other experts are now looking at different properties to explain why the universe still exists. These include the possibility that anti-matter has upside-down gravity, meaning it would in-effect fall upwards.

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Hemalatha.G Sethu Bhaskara Matriculation Higher Secondary Scho

Quite informative!

mark aruliah SBOA SCHOOL & JUNIOR COLLEGE

amazing and unbelievable

Nidhi MAYUR PUBLIC SCHOOL(PATPATGANJ)

I didn''t know this. Quite interesting

D. Archanaa Bethel Mat Hr Sec School

This sounds quite interesting to hear.

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