From: Patrick Wilken (patrickw@cs.monash.edu.au)
Date: Mon Aug 16 1999 - 16:50:55 MDT
>Ron Kean <ronkean@juno.com> writes:
>
>> When you say that 'Every particle has an anti-particle...', do you mean
>> that there are equal amounts of matter and anti-matter?
>
>No, locally (i.e. the known universe) there is much more matter than
>antimatter - why is one of the big questions in cosmology.
Weren't there recent experiments that showed that the creation of
matter/anti-matter was not completely symmetrical (i.e. slightly more
matter is made for each tonne of anti-matter). Suggesting that there might
not be any great quantities of anti-matter left in the Universe (known and
unknown). That we, and everything we see, are just what's left over after
the rest of the matter/anti-matter destroyed itself.
ciao, patrick
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Editor: PSYCHE: An International Journal of Research on Consciousness
Board Member: The Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
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