Why You Shouldn't Exist: The 1-in-a-Billion Physics Miracle

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Ever wonder why you’re not a puff of light?

According to the laws of physics, you shouldn't even be here. The Big Bang Theory suggests that for every particle of matter created, an equal amount of antimatter should have been born, leading to a total cosmic wipeout. So, why does the universe exist? This episode dives deep into the Antimatter Mystery and the billion-to-one miracle that allowed galaxies, planets, and humans to survive the ultimate annihilation.

We’re taking you inside CERN’s Antimatter Factory, where scientists are literally trapping antiprotons and preparing to transport them across Geneva in portable antimatter traps. Is there a secret crack in the Standard Model of Physics? Could there be a Mirror Universe hidden just out of sight?

What you'll discover in this episode:

The Asymmetry Scandal: How one extra matter particle per billion saved us all.
Trucking the Big Bang: The high-stakes mission to move the world’s most volatile substance by road.
The ALPHA & BASE Experiments: How high-precision tests on antihydrogen are challenging everything we know about Particle Physics.
The Future of the Universe: What the High-Luminosity LHC upgrade means for the next decade of discovery.

Stop settling for 'we don't know' and join us as we hunt for the flaw that built the cosmos. This is a detective story on a subatomic scale that answers the most fundamental human question:

Why is there something rather than nothing?
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