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William Barter

New discovery at CERN could hint at why our universe is made up of matter and not antimatter

A look inside the Large Hadron Collider full of different scientific instruments.

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.

Why didn’t the universe annihilate itself moments after the big bang? A new finding at Cern on the French-Swiss border brings us closer to answering this fundamental question about why matter dominates over its opposite – antimatter.

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