Antimatter

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Frank Close is a physics professor at Oxford University, a Fellow of Exeter College, and the former head of the Theoretical Physics Division at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. He’s also the author of the best-selling books Lucifer's Legacy and Eclipse.

Matter and antimatter, mirror images of each other, were created in equal amounts during the big bang, yet the universe is overwhelmingly dominated by matter. This imbalance suggests an underlying asymmetry, as seen in the behavior of particles like the kaon, which oscillates between matter and antimatter states but spends slightly more time as matter. Similarly, neutrinos, capable of existing as either matter or antimatter, may have been produced unevenly during the decay of a hypothetical particle called the majoron, favoring matter and tipping the cosmic scales. Advances in particle physics have revealed a diverse subatomic world, with discoveries like the quark—fundamental building blocks of protons and neutrons—and their antimatter counterparts, antiquarks. These findings deepen our understanding of the universe’s composition and hint at the mechanisms behind matter's dominance over antimatter.

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