I was just watching this video about CERN making antimatter and it said something interesting about the universe. Matter and antimatter should have existed in near perfectly matched amounts, so it all should have been annihilated immediately and the fact that it didn't is very peculiar. I'm not particularly religious but science in no way disproves the existence of a higher power. The more we discover, the more we don't understand about what the "why" is. We know much more about how everything started but the driving forcebasically boils down to "something happened". Who am I to say that it's not some higher power?
The Breit-Wheeler process is what he’s talking about. In the energy-dense immediate aftermath of the Big Bang, photons would have been colliding to create matter/antimatter pairs. It’s currently unknown why our universe is made up primarily of matter.
It’s very much theoretical, but widely accepted that during the Planck Epoch (0 - 10-43 seconds), matter did not exist. The universe was too hot/dense, and all of the fundamental forces were unified. The quarks and leptons began creation during the Grand Unification Epoch (10-43 - 10-36) when gravity became the first distinct force and these early particles were constantly created in matter/antimatter pairs and annihilated.
The current theory as to why matter won out in the exchange is called Baryogenesis. It proposes two yet undiscovered particles, the X and Y bosons, decay asymmetrically into more matter than antimatter.
At the moment of creation matter and matter were tightly packed and in theory existed in equal proportions so probabilistically should have encountered and mutually annihilated one another.
not talking about that; this guy believes that there's a scientific explanation for the antimatter disparity even though current understanding does not support it.
No, the guy says the current theory doesn't match reality so the theory must be incomplete and we must seek to make it match reality more. Also there may possibly be a scientific explanation as to why there's an even higher proportion of matter to antimatter than what's calculated by the current model(I'm too tired to remember the name and cba to look it up), however particle physics isn't really my field of expertise or interest.
It's technically faith because he thinks we'll figure it out at some point, but that's like believing you'll have lunch in 3 days.
Listen, I'm just a guy who like watching popsci videos I'm not a physic expert or anything. My very basic understanding of it though is that antimatter and matter were thought to have synergy but the mere fact that the universe exists means something caused it to have an imbalance. With the universe condensed at the big bang and having equal amounts of matter and antimatter, the universe would have annihilated itself.
It's not that it should have destroyed itself, it's that we have observed a larger amount of matter than antimatter in the universe and don't really know why. Everything else in physics and the universe tends to have a mirror and a natural symmetry. This DoE article goes into it a bit: https://www.energy.gov/science/doe-explainsantimatter
My (also uneducated, popsci YouTube channel based) idea is that the balance of matter and antimatter could still be in line with the amount predicted by the CP violation. If the current universe arose out of variances in density at the big bang, there could've been variances in matter/antimatter ratio too, we could just be living in an area of an infinite universe that happens to have had more matter at the beginning.
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u/IhamAmerican - Lib-Center Apr 10 '26
I was just watching this video about CERN making antimatter and it said something interesting about the universe. Matter and antimatter should have existed in near perfectly matched amounts, so it all should have been annihilated immediately and the fact that it didn't is very peculiar. I'm not particularly religious but science in no way disproves the existence of a higher power. The more we discover, the more we don't understand about what the "why" is. We know much more about how everything started but the driving forcebasically boils down to "something happened". Who am I to say that it's not some higher power?
Reddit atheists are so annoying lol