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Scientists trap and tame a single particle of antimatter for months (news.northwestern.edu)
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[–] 15 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I always assume it's the same reason why are have mostly right handed people. It's just that the scales tipped at some point and it had to go down one way from that point.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    Yeah probably but the important bit is why!

    Good point about right handedness! That is actually quite fascinating as well because in most other primates it's a 50/50 split.

    Turns out walking is probably the major factor and our brains created the split - link. Still more questions though lol

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  • [–] 0 points 2 days ago

    I actually think I solved that one a long time ago. I want with right, it works. Left--feels weird. Not like a good sort of "someone else is doing it" feeling like if you sit on your hand until it goes numb sort of thing.

    But I digress. I think that mostly the survivors won the war regarding how to pleasure themselves and therefore have more of a reason to survive.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    I think the universe actually is perfectly balanced between antimatter and matter, but variation across space emerged as space expanded and our entire observable universe happens to be in a pocket where there was more matter than antimatter.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago

    Sounds reasonable. Assuming matter and antimatter split into equal parts that would have to be the case. I'm not sure if annihilation is a perfect process. Assuming energy density creates separation of energy into matter and antimatter of equal parts and no sudden annihilation happens, that would most certainly result in such a conclusion.

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