Written by: Antara Paul
Edited by: Courtney Myers
This piece was written in collaboration with the 2025 ComSciCon-MI Write-A-Thon.
The Big Bang created matter and antimatter in equal amounts at the beginning of the universe. Why then, after billions of years, do we see only matter around us? Physicists have been trying to find clues to this question for centuries.
The universe we live in is composed of atoms, which in turn contain tinier particles called protons, neutrons, and electrons. These particles were individually discovered by scientists during the early twentieth century. For the next few decades, it was believed that protons and neutrons were fundamental particles. However, in the 1960s, it was discovered that they were composed of groups of even smaller particles called quarks. At the time, only three types of quarks were discovered.
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