Oh man o man, this blew my mind off. This would be a great find it its true.
BBC News - Antigravity gets first test at Cern’s Alpha experiment
So far scientists used to think that the difference in matter and
antimatter is their charge, otherwise they should behave exactly in a
similar manner. In nutshell, one could not tell a difference between
the universe made out of antimatter and one made out of matter. That
is not true anymore .In nutshell, there is a hint (not conclusive yet)
that antimatter may be repelled by +gravity, rather than attracted to
it. If it’s true, then it answers 2 major questions.
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Why universe is flying apart and expanding at the tremendous
rate that it is, and
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Why our universe is made out of matter and not antimatter.
Just to add my 2 cents, and to explain in my own words; right after
the big bang, from NOTHINGESS, pairs of particles and anti-particles
were created. All of these pairs annihilated into each
other, and left NOTHINGNESS. Scientists were thinking that the visible
universe is made out of the left over particles and somehow nature was
biased in creating more particles than anti-particles, so when all the
particles/anti-particles pairs got annihilated, we were left with some
extra particles that nature created for us and universe was formed.
That theory was not making much sense (although it’s still the valid
one). Why was nature biased in creating more particles and how exactly
that happened, no one knew.
Ok now imagine this. Nature was never biased and it created equal
number of particles and anti-particles. Its just that not all the
pairs got annihilated. The ‘particle’ part of the universe made stars
and galaxies (because particles are attracted to each other through
gravity). The antiparticle part of the universe created that dark
matter which is not only invisible, but respells each other – hence
this dark matter or dark energy is what causing the expansion of the
universe.
Please tell me that this whole buk buk of mine is not more thrilling
than the Saas Bahu threads that you guys read in Life1.;