Tevatron Particle Study Finds Exciting New Clue to Why Everything Exists
Collider Experiments Could Help Explain Existence The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Experiments at the LHC could help scientists understand recent findings about why the universe is made of matter and not antimatter. wikimedia commons/EetwarttiA glimpse of "the toe of God" The New York Times reports on some unlikely results of experiments at the Tevatron, the particle accelerator at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill. The new findings could shed light on why the universe has a preponderance of matter over antimatter, and therefore something rather than nothing. From a purely mathematical perspective, nothing should currently exist. When the Big Bang happened, equal amounts of matter and antimatter would have been created. Then they should have instantly annihilated each other, leaving nothing but the void -- not even atoms. As physicist Guennadi Borissov writes, "The Standard Model disagrees with one experimental fact --...