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Scientists think that they’ve taken a step toward finally understanding one of the greatest mysteries of the universe: why it exists in the first place.<\/p>
When the universe formed, it created both antimatter and matter<\/a>, which destroy each other when they meet. So why there’s enough matter left to form all the galaxies, stars, and worlds out there is a key question.<\/p> Now, Scientific American <\/a><\/em>reports<\/a> that scientists have made substantial progress toward providing an answer.<\/p> The theory, called leptogenesis, posits that the Big Bang spewed out a massive number of subatomic particles called neutrinos. When those neutrinos eventually broke apart, leptogenesis suggests that they happened to form more matter byproducts than antimatter ones.<\/p> New findings out of Japan’s Tokai to Kamioka (T2K) experiment<\/a>, which were published last week<\/a> in the journal Nature<\/em>, aren’t definitive evidence of the leptogenesis theory. But, pending the many follow-up experiments and analyses that would be necessary to actually make that declaration, SciAm<\/em> reports that the findings do seem to strongly suggest that leptogenesis is on to something.<\/p> T<\/strong>he study suggested there’s a 95 percent chance that the neutrinos break down into an uneven proportion of matter to antimatter, a measurement called CP violation. That sounds convincing, but it’s not good enough for such a fundamental mystery of the universe.<\/p> “We don’t call it a discovery yet,” Stony Brook University researcher and T2K team member Chang Kee Jung told SciAm<\/em>.<\/p> READ MORE: <\/strong>Antimatter Discovery Reveals Clues about the Universe’s Beginning<\/a> [Scientific American<\/em>]<\/p> More on neutrinos: <\/strong>Shocking Research Threatens Our Understanding of Dark Matter<\/a> <\/em><\/p> The post Scientists May Be Close to Understanding Why the Universe Exists<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> Read the original: Universal Imbalance Scientists think that they\u2019ve taken a step toward finally understanding one of the greatest mysteries of the universe: why it exists in the first place. Continue reading Piecing It Together<\/h2>
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