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Article: Particle accelerator gives new peek at nature of life itself.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- July 7, 2001
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SAN JOSE, Calif. _ Researchers at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center announced Friday that they are one step closer to pinning down the answer to a most fundamental question _ why are we here?
The Big Bang that started the universe should have produced equal amounts of matter and antimatter. As any good science fiction fan knows, when matter and antimatter meet they annihilate each other. So how did matter survive and come to dominate?
In search of an answer, an international team of 600 scientists has been generating vast numbers of subatomic particles known as B mesons, along with their antimatter counterparts. They look for subtle distinctions in the ...