Big Bang shouldn't have given birth to our universe. It should've annihilated it completely! This is a radical new thought according to some of the brightest minds on our planet.
Top scientists in the field of astrophysics believe we're all living on borrowed time. They say our universe is an anomaly, that it shouldn't exist. That the Big Bang that created all the stars, galaxies, including our solar system, should have destroyed everything instead.
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The current accepted model is that the universe was born after the Big Bang, which created equal parts matter and antimatter. However, antimatter is theorised to be exactly like matter, except for an opposite electrical charge. Because of this, they should ideally react violently when put together and destroy each other. And yet that hasn¡¯t happened.
Researchers from the European Organization for Nuclear Research have been looking for clues in this perplexing case, to figure out how some variation of matter or antimatter could exist peacefully alongside its opposite. So far, they¡¯ve drawn a blank.
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In the past, research to find a difference in the mass, electrical charge, or really anything else between the two, have failed. The team¡¯s latest study involved measurements of matter and antimatter¡¯s magnetism over 350 times more precise than before, and yet they appear to be identical.
¡°All of our observations find a complete symmetry between matter and antimatter, which is why the universe should not actually exist,¡± the study¡¯s lead author Christian Smorra said. ¡°An asymmetry must exist here somewhere but we simply do not understand where the difference is. What is the source of the symmetry break?¡±
Who knows, maybe we'll one day figure out how we came to be. Or maybe we'll never learn the meaning of life. Then again, maybe it was just 42 all along.