As I understand it (thank you, recent post), anti-matter and matter are literally identical besides the reversed charges. If that’s the case, shouldn’t there be a more-or-less equal amount of the stuff created through the big bang, as opposed to the teeny tiny amounts we typically find?
If not, why not, and if so, where the hell is it all?
Edit: TLDR, yes there should be, nobody really knows why there isn’t. Thank you!
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One of the great mysteries of the universe! *Either* there’s a ton of antimatter somewhere else we haven’t noticed (note: due to expansion of space there are parts of the universe where light will NEVER reach us and we can never study), *or* some bias in the laws of the universe that made matter more prevalent than antimatter but we haven’t discovered any reason for this.
ELI5 will not be able to answer the question because nobody knows!
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