Monday, April 08, 2013

The missing anti-matter


It is thought that the universe was created in a chance quantum fluctuation with matter and antimatter separated from nothingness on its way to returning to nothing. (0=(+1) + (-1), where +1 in matter and -1 is antimatter, this has the same value as 1-1=0). This leaves the question as to why we still exist. What happened to the anti-matter that was supposed to end us?

One possibility is that our universe is in the event horizon of a black hole. Inside this, time slows down dramatically. Picture matter and anti-matter spontaneously created and about to cancel each other out. This is not instantaneous. They have to travel the short distance to each other and then interact in a big cancellation explosion.

If time were sufficiently slowed down, there could be time for stars and planets to form and life to evolve. This solves the problem of the missing antimatter. It is there but operating in a different time frame.

This still leaves the question of what created the black hole to begin with. It’s kind of like saying God created the universe but not explaining what created God. However this does not invalidate our quest any more than saying that the big bang created the universe from a singularity, without, explaining what created the singularity.
  
There is always one step further back that we need to seek as part of our complete understanding.