New experiments on neutrinos may shed light on the mystery of why matter dominates over antimatter in the universe. Physicists theorize that matter and antimatter should have been created in equal amounts during the Big Bang. However, the observable universe contains significantly more matter. The disparity suggests potential differences in the behavior of matter and antimatter, which current research aims to explore through understanding neutrinos. Notably, physicist Jessica Turner indicates that many models that could explain this asymmetry are connected to neutrinos, although they are not definitively the solution.
According to physicists' best current theories, matter and its counterpart, antimatter, ought to have been created in equal amounts at the time of the Big Bang. But antimatter is vanishingly rare in the universe, raising questions about their behaviors that could explain this discrepancy.
When physicists talk about matter, that's just the ordinary stuff that the universe is made of-mainly protons and neutrons, along with lighter particles like electrons. Antimatter, while similar, typically differs only by electric charge.
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