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5 days agoThe LHC's best 2025 discovery points the way to new physics
Observation in 2025 that baryons exhibit CP-violation provides crucial evidence toward explaining the Universe's matter–antimatter asymmetry.
Matter and antimatter mirror each other in all respects but electric charge; physicists are excited by small differences in their behaviors. Recently, observations at the world's largest particle collider revealed a new class of antimatter particles breaking down differently than matter counterparts. This discovery contributes to the quest to understand why our universe consists of matter as opposed to an equal balance with antimatter, a situation suggested by early universe theories.