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According to Einstein, the universe should be equal parts matter and anti-matter; in other words, we shouldn’t exist, so why do we? Some physicists in Chicago may have the answer.

According to Einstein, the universe should be equal parts matter and anti-matter; in other words, we shouldn’t exist, so why do we? Some physicists in Chicago may have the answer. “In a mathematically perfect universe, we would be less than dead; we would never have existed…And yet we exist, and physicists (among others) would dearly like to know why.”


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