

Why the universe exists has baffled the scientific community for a while now – but an experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has yielded results that mean the answers may be just around the corner. The problem for physicists is that in the first second of the Big Bang matter - that's all the stuff around us - and anti-matter existed in equal quantities, but the anti-matter disappeared in an instant afterwards and no one knows why.
Now physicists at the atom-smasher in Switzerland believe they’ve found evidence of a particle that decays in a different manner to its anti-matter counterpart, which may eventually help explain what happened to all the anti-matter after the universe exploded into life.
This experiment is at the wild frontier of physics and if the research is found to be correct could alter our understanding of the cosmos. Anti-matter is simply matter, but with an opposite charge. Should matter and anti-matter ever meet, the result is explosive to say the least. So it’s a good thing that anti-matter is extremely rare.
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