A Link Between Dark Matter and Antimatter Could Be Why the Universe Exists
Dark matter, antimatter, and why it matters.
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Antimatter and dark matter are two of modern science’s biggest mysteries, and now scientists are probing whether they could be linked in order to explain why and how our universe exists at all.
Physicists currently don’t understand why, at the origin of the universe or just after, matter and antimatter were seemingly not produced in equal quantities. If this had happened—as would be the expected result, assuming symmetry in the universe—opposing matter and antimatter would have been cancelled out, leaving nothing at all. The universe would never have formed.