• foyrkopp@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Because one common assumption was that the universe might contain as much antimatter as matter.

    Which begs the question: Where did it go? We would notice a huge amount of annihilation reactions in the solar system.

    “Antimatter falls up” (is gravitationally repelled instead of attracted by normal matter) was an easy hypothesis to explain that.