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It is truly ridiculous to see college-educated people invoking string-theory (which actually implies that much of current state three-dimensional physics cannot be understood unless, mathematically, one dimension is added in abstracto to make more sense) without actually realizing the true state of particles, and then adding up to 20+ dimensions mathematically because they can't make heads or tails of it. Pathetic, really. [[User:Crusty007|Crusty007]] ([[User talk:Crusty007|talk]]) 00:03, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
It is truly ridiculous to see college-educated people invoking string-theory (which actually implies that much of current state three-dimensional physics cannot be understood unless, mathematically, one dimension is added in abstracto to make more sense) without actually realizing the true state of particles, and then adding up to 20+ dimensions mathematically because they can't make heads or tails of it. Pathetic, really. [[User:Crusty007|Crusty007]] ([[User talk:Crusty007|talk]]) 00:03, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
::hmm i dont quite see negative time there ... as that doesnt exist IMHO, but antimatter does exist. you even say it yourself, that time just goes forward ... [[Special:Contributions/220.142.128.208|220.142.128.208]] ([[User talk:220.142.128.208|talk]]) 19:05, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
::hmm i dont quite see negative time there ... as that doesnt exist IMHO, but antimatter does exist. you even say it yourself, that time just goes forward ... [[Special:Contributions/220.142.128.208|220.142.128.208]] ([[User talk:220.142.128.208|talk]]) 19:05, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
::I think the original writer is missing the point...the point is that whenever we create matter "by high-energy experiments" we always get an equal amount of antimatter. The big bang was the ultimate "high-energy experiment", with lots more energy, and hence lots more matter than any experiment we can produce. So why was there not an equal amount of antimatter produced then? The problem is that simple...
::I think the original writer is missing the point...the point is that whenever we create matter "by high-energy experiments" we always get an equal amount of antimatter. The big bang was the ultimate "high-energy experiment", with lots more energy, and hence lots more matter than any experiment we can produce. So why was there not an equal amount of antimatter produced then? The problem is that simple... [31 August 2009‎ Grant Gussie ]


Well if matter and antimatter were both being created and annihilating and there was even a slight preponderance of matter over time that got amplified. A Slight preponderance of matter that can't yet be demonstrated experimentally would be sufficient, I think. [[User:Proxima Centauri|Proxima Centauri]] ([[User talk:Proxima Centauri|talk]]) 11:37, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
Well if matter and antimatter were both being created and annihilating and there was even a slight preponderance of matter over time that got amplified. A Slight preponderance of matter that can't yet be demonstrated experimentally would be sufficient, I think. [[User:Proxima Centauri|Proxima Centauri]] ([[User talk:Proxima Centauri|talk]]) 11:37, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

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Wow, talking about a huge big white elephant in cosmology. Apparently every single physicist has completely forgotten that antimatter is matter with the time direction in the negative. Dirac's solution inverts the time direction. That means that antimatter travels back in time. Of course there is no antimatter in a forward-timed-universe, unless specifically created by high energy phenomena (i.e., you have to put some effort in it). In fact, 99,9999% (the part after the comma isn't really relevant) of all physicists seems to forget that we exist not in a three- or four-dimensional universe, but in a 3.5 dimensional universe, if conceding time is the highest dimension. We have free choice of movement (or interaction) in three dimensions, yet no choice in the fourth, unless by high-energy laboratory experiments. It is truly ridiculous to see college-educated people invoking string-theory (which actually implies that much of current state three-dimensional physics cannot be understood unless, mathematically, one dimension is added in abstracto to make more sense) without actually realizing the true state of particles, and then adding up to 20+ dimensions mathematically because they can't make heads or tails of it. Pathetic, really. Crusty007 (talk) 00:03, 26 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

hmm i dont quite see negative time there ... as that doesnt exist IMHO, but antimatter does exist. you even say it yourself, that time just goes forward ... 220.142.128.208 (talk) 19:05, 21 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I think the original writer is missing the point...the point is that whenever we create matter "by high-energy experiments" we always get an equal amount of antimatter. The big bang was the ultimate "high-energy experiment", with lots more energy, and hence lots more matter than any experiment we can produce. So why was there not an equal amount of antimatter produced then? The problem is that simple... [31 August 2009‎ Grant Gussie ]

Well if matter and antimatter were both being created and annihilating and there was even a slight preponderance of matter over time that got amplified. A Slight preponderance of matter that can't yet be demonstrated experimentally would be sufficient, I think. Proxima Centauri (talk) 11:37, 7 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

News story

It appears that the asymmetry may have been replicated at Fermilab: A New Clue to Explain Existence. The universe is getting more bizarre all the time.—RJH (talk) 16:12, 18 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Intro is flat out wrong!

It is not true that matter would have been completely cancelled by anti matter, Since matter + anti matter <=> photon goes both ways. The baryon to photon ratio would just be about 9 orders of magnitude smaller than it is now. Though I recall the calculation was not completely trivial. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.72.121.51 (talk) 20:03, 30 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Solution to the Baryon asymmetry problem

According to relativity, the Space-time interval from one point in space time to another that's x, y, and z, light seconds away from it in perpendicular directions and t seconds into the future is t2 - x2 - y2 - z2 seconds. Thus, the set of all points in space time that have a 1 second Space-time interval from the big bang is a uniform infinte 3 dimensional hyperbolic space and an observer near the edge of the universe does not observe themself as being at the edge of the universe but instead observes themself as being in the centre of a much younger universe. Since the set of all points in space-time that have a space time interval of 13 billion years from the big bang is an infinitely big uniform hyperbolic space, it has an equal amount of matter and anti-matter. Even so, localized regions can be almost completely regular matter or almost completely anti-matter. The reason is that nothing is perfect and the slight drifting of matter and anti-matter causes some regions to have only barely more matter then antimatter and vice versa but later on, in such a region, almost all of that matter and antimatter annihilates each other to have which ever there was more of exist in a much smaller amount than before. Even unobservably large regions of the universe that initially had barely more matter than antimatter could have almost all of the matter and antimatter in that region annihilate each other until there's only matter left at a much smaller quantity. There could easily be another point in space time that to us is much further into the future really close to the edge of the universe but in the frame of reference of that point is in the centre of the universe only 13 billion years after the big bang and that point might be surrounded by the same amount of antimatter up to an unonservably large distance with practically no matter at all. Most of the annihilation occured in the very early universe so the photons from the annihilation got really heavily redshifted into the microwave background radiation by the expansion of the universe. Blackbombchu (talk) 02:44, 11 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Are there any reliable sources for this? Paradoctor (talk) 05:21, 11 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
According to the article Antimatter, that problem was considered one of the greatest unsolved problems in physics. I assumed the task of that problem was to give a very reasonable explanation that stops people from feeling like there's a contradiction from there being almost completely matter in the observable universe, not to prove the theory correct. Blackbombchu (talk) 19:08, 11 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
In fact, there's no reason at all to assume that clusters of galaxies that are so far away from us that their rate of moving away from us exceeds their gravitational attraction are composed of matter and not antimatter. A photon is it's own antipartcle so we can't tell by looking whether it's matter or antimatter, Furthermore, it's moving away from us so fast that it never would have gotton a chance to annihilate a cluster of galaxies made of regular matter since the very early universe when almost all of the matter and antimatter in that region of space annihilated each othe leaving behind only antimatter. Bacuse it's moving away so fast that it would never get a chance to annihilate regular matter, we don't know that's it's made of regular matter and not anti-matter. Blackbombchu (talk) 19:47, 11 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Please take note of WP:NOTFORUM. If you have a suggestion for a change to the article, please specify what it should be, and support it with reliable sources. Discussion of any ideas you (or I) might have for explaining the baryon asymmetry do not belong here. Paradoctor (talk) 21:17, 11 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

CP Violation section seems wrong

It seems to be saying there's no experimental evidence for CP-violation. That's not right. It's well established that the weak nuclear force violates CP-symmetry. The 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics was given for this discovery. Maybe it's correct to say that the known sources of CP-violation aren't enough to account for the Baryon asymmetry? Or that there's no evidence for CP-violation except in the weak force? - Tim314 (talk) 12:34, 13 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Currently the CP violation section says that it has been detected and measured, but surprisingly does not discuss how this does or might explain some or all of the baryon asymmetry. - Rod57 (talk) 09:44, 10 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]