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Indira Khera | WBEZ

Why do we exist? Fermilab’s DUNE project involving neutrino particles aims to answer that very big question

This 20,000-pound, nearly 20-foot cube is the neutrino detection system as it was transported across the Fermilab campus on Dec. 1 for installation. According to Fermilab, it contains delicate sensors that will be used to try to unlock some of the world’s biggest mysteries. (Fermilab / YouTube)

There’s a weird discrepancy in the field of particle physics. Basically, it’s unclear why we exist.

All the matter and antimatter particles produced during the Big Bang should have annihilated one another, according to Sam Zeller, a physicist at Fermilab in Batavia.

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