RE: Origin of Matter
June 5, 2017 at 3:51 pm
(This post was last modified: June 5, 2017 at 3:59 pm by Alex K.)
@RedSox
Concerning your question (2), while there are no really secure answers, the leading candidate hypothesis is universal inflation. If you are interested I can go into why this hypothesis has so much support.
In inflation, matter is created after a region of spacetime undergoes a rapid expansion. When it drops out of this phase of expansion, the fields which drove this expansion carry a lot of excess energy which will then via the fundamental interactions be converted into all the types of particles that exist. Due to the violation of matter-antimatter symmetry, a bit of excess matter remains and antimatter is annihilated, and voilà, here we are.
Concerning your question (2), while there are no really secure answers, the leading candidate hypothesis is universal inflation. If you are interested I can go into why this hypothesis has so much support.
In inflation, matter is created after a region of spacetime undergoes a rapid expansion. When it drops out of this phase of expansion, the fields which drove this expansion carry a lot of excess energy which will then via the fundamental interactions be converted into all the types of particles that exist. Due to the violation of matter-antimatter symmetry, a bit of excess matter remains and antimatter is annihilated, and voilà, here we are.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
