Mysterious 'antihydrogen' particles reveal uncanny quantum effect

The bubbling, raucous quantum vacuum distorts the shape of every hydrogen atom in the universe, and it distorts antimatter "antihydrogen" too.

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"Currently, antimatter appears to be the perfect, antagonistic twin of matter, and one of the great mysteries of physics is why matter came to dominate space as antimatter became a bit player in the universe. Finding some difference between the two could help explain the structure of the modern universe."

Looks like the baryon asymmetry conflict with anti-matter in the Big Bang is not quite solved yet. About one second after the Big Bang event, matter and anti-matter would destroy each other and the expanding universe is just light :)
 

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