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JayhawkSD

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8. "...is made up of densely packed pairs of matter and antimatter."

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Jan 30, 2018, 10:45 AM

Jan 2018

What happened to the theory that if matter and antimatter ever came together it would mutually annihilate in a massive explosion. As I recall one theory was that the "big bang" was just such an explosion.

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