What's the Matter? That's What U.Va. Physicists Are Seeking to Detect
Monday, December 6, 2010 - 10:51
in Physics & Chemistry
One of the great and fundamental questions in physics is: Why is there matter? Physicists theorize that in the instant after the Big Bang created the makings of the universe, there were nearly equal amounts of matter and anti-matter, protons and anti-protons, neutrons and anti-neutrons. They should have annihilated each other, resulting in ... nothing.