FermiLab physicists have found out why we're here -- why anti-matter and matter didn't just cancel each other out. It has to do with the introduction of fat electrons.
That explains a lot.
In a mathematically perfect universe, we would be less than dead; we would never have existed. According to the basic precepts of Einsteinian relativity and quantum mechanics, equal amounts of matter and antimatter should have been created in the Big Bang and then immediately annihilated each other in a blaze of lethal energy, leaving a big fat goose egg with which to make to make stars, galaxies and us. And yet we exist, and physicists (among others) would dearly like to know why.
Sifting data from collisions of protons and antiprotons at Fermilab’s Tevatron, which until last winter was the most powerful particle accelerator in the world, the team, known as the DZero collaboration, found that the fireballs produced pairs of the particles known as muons, which are sort of fat electrons, slightly more often than they produced pairs of anti-muons. So the miniature universe inside the accelerator went from being neutral to being about 1 percent more matter than antimatter.
Wait till James Dobson hears it's all about muons. One theorist at FermiLab is quoted as saying, "... I would not say that this announcement is the equivalent of seeing the face of God, but it might turn out to be the toe of God."
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Note to Ms. S., my tenth grade math teacher who got so fed up with my dead-end unmathematicalness that she stopped trying to teach me. "See? If it haddena been for lousy math you, Ms. S., would not have been here. You would have been annihilated in a blaze of lethal energy."