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Message 1897751 - Posted: 27 Oct 2017, 16:44:05 UTC - in response to Message 1897714.  

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Scientists baffled: Universe shouldn't exist


Despite the organization’s $1.24 billion annual budget for 2017, the physicists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, are being forced to admit failure in their latest effort to explain why any of us are here.

Indeed, why there’s even a “here” here at all.

“The universe should not actually exist,” said Christian Smorra, a physicist at CERN’s Baryon–Antibaryon Symmetry Experiment (BASE) collaboration.

CERN, founded in 1954, features a circular tunnel some 17 miles around that houses a particle accelerator, which uses peak energy of 14 trillion electron volts to speed particles to nearly the speed of light and allow them to collide. It is underneath Switzerland near its border with France.


The linked article appears to suggest that antimatter may be found to fall away from matter (antigravity). This makes sense, as it would avoid annihilating interactions with matter, and allow the universe to exist.

Antigravity antimatter has been considered very improbable, but given the failure of other solutions to the stated problem, perhaps it is not.
The implications of a substance with antigravity properties are intriguing, to say the least.
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