one of the biggest questions in particle physics relates to the existence of matter. in a mathematically perfect universe, there would have been equal amounts of matter and antimatter created after the big bang, and they would have annihilated each other. there should be nothing everywhere. scientists don't know why the universe is composed of matter, and not its evil twin.recently, a new clue to solving this mystery was announced. scientists at Fermilab's Tevatron, the largest particle collider in the US, discovered that muons, described as "fat electrons" might be the reason we are here. the reason we are really living.
they believe that after the big bang, neutral B-mesons, which switch back and forth between their matter and antimatter states trillions of times per second, and eventually decay to muons. because of the rate at which they alternate between the two states, they end up as matter more often than antimatter. that, not jebus, is the reason we are alive.
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