New findings have physicists questioning reality

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I see. Thanks for letting your indifference be known, i guess.
 
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I was making a joke about the matter-antimatter.
Obviously you didn’t find it funny.

On a serious note, it’s actually fascinating to hear an apparent symmetry which would indeed posit a material universe like ours not being able to exist.
 
LOL, perfect! That’s OK, I personally can be a total nerd. You’re probably a lot like my son (and he’s a great guy!); he groans at any pun I attempt.
 
So, when he says “there was slightly more matter than anti-matter”, does that mean that the claim is that the quantity of matter in the universe the amount of “extra” matter?

That is, is he claiming that:
| M | - | A | = | U |
???

That is, is the claim that, at the Big Bang, all antimatter came in contact with a corresponding amount of matter, and all that was left over was the ‘extra’ amount of matter that now comprises the universe?

(Or, perhaps, that there was some small amount of antimatter that did not collide and still exists in the universe, but nevertheless, the “small difference” between the two is still by-and-large what we perceive of as the universe?)
 
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That is, is the claim that, at the Big Bang, all antimatter came in contact with a corresponding amount of matter, and all that was left over was the ‘extra’ amount of matter that now comprises the universe?
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Except that extra matter should not exist. That matter should have been destroyed at the instant of the big bang…

Which suggests to the physicists that there was slightly more matter than anti matter. And so the qeustion is why?
 
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Well the existence of that extra matter, which we now know as the universe, cannot just arbitrarily exist., so what put the extra matter there? Why does it exist?
 
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The is a very good youtube video about the chance of life in the universe. To me this just help to show that a creator was involved in the creating of the universe. We shouldnt be here but we are, is the question we need to think about
 
See, the thing is, antimatter as far as I know is still a hypothetical. Theoretical physics itself is a great big thought exercise lately. Lots of math but less testability, if you know what I mean.
 
Yes. That’s why he said we should not exist, because all the matter should have been destroyed…
 
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Yes. That’s why he said we should not exist, because all the matter should have been destroyed…
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If you say so. I take that assertion to mean “the amounts should have been the same”, without saying what the quantity of extra matter is.

So… do physicists have an estimate on how much matter was destroyed in the Big Bang? In other words, are they saying
| M | >> | A |
or are they saying
| M | - ε = | A |
???
 
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So how do we know antimatter exists abundantly in the universe (but less of it than matter)anyways? I mean what is the common force that is the same that allows us to “see” and compare? Is photon (ie no anti photons) production the same perhaps? or is gravity (no anti gravity) the dame perhaps?

And how do we know negative hydrogen is antimatter?
 
Unfortunately, all of my knowledge of science comes from reruns of Star Trek.
 
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