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Physicists Say That Our Universe Shouldn’t Exist

Matter and antimatter should have destroyed each other in the moments after the Big Bang. That they didn’t is yet another enduring mystery of physics.

Physicists Say That Our Universe Shouldn’t Exist
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Physicists are facing a matter/antimatter conundrum: they can’t find a good reason to explain why the universe actually exists.

It sounds like a classic episode of classic Star Trek when someone inexplicably shuts down the warp engines, some imminent threat looms, and — right on cue — Scotty says: “Captain, I canna’ change the laws of physics.”

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