Summary: "There had to be non-symmetry in the matter/antimatter of the big bang in order for our world to exist."
Yesterday I saw a poster in my college which explained about matter vs. antimatter and how it relates to the big bang.
For those of you who don't know, antimatter is composed of atoms which have protons orbiting a neutron/electron nucleus, as opposed to normal atoms/matter which have electrons orbiting a neutron/proton nucleus.
Evidentally, the big bang should have produced an equal quantity of matter and antimatter. But the problem is, if it did that, the matter and antimatter would immediately combust into pure energy. See, electrons are attracted to protons, and if the electrons from the outside of matter hit the protons on the outside of antimatter, they will be attracted, zoom towards eachother until they hit and then...blow up? Consume eachother more likely. But anyway, it is a pure conversion (as far as we can tell) into energy.
Anyways...a normal big bang would have just consumed itself into all energy and no matter/antimatter. How then do we have matter? The poster said that there was a flaw/anomalie/antisymmetry in one out of every 10 billion atoms, causing an imbalance that made stuff fly off at random angles and not combust.
Now that sounds pretty hokey to me. I guess there isn't an immediate follow-through to some fact about how God created the universe, but it's just some food for though. [This whole post has been information with only a slant of my own ideas...kindof]
Let me know what you think.
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