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The Antimatter Fountain 5/22/22

Particle Collision and Blackhole in LHC (Large Hadron Collider)
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Particle Collision and Blackhole in LHC (Large Hadron Collider)

Antimatter has the same appearance and behavior as ordinary matter. An antimatter star would look just like a normal one. But let an antimatter object touch anything made of conventional matter, and both vanish in a violent flash.
Every version of the Big Bang theory says that equal amounts of matter and antimatter should have been created. Yet somehow we live in a matter-dominated universe. What happened to all the potential anti-planets and anti-stars?

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