Missing Antimatter: A Huge Problem for the Big Bang

The Big Bang should have produced equal amounts of matter and antimatter. Image courtesy of NASA.



Joel Kontinen

There isn’t any antimatter, although there should be, if the Big Bang were true.

This is no laughing matter. ABS Science says:

“The Standard Model of particle physics — which accurately describes all the particles and interactions that make up our universe — says our universe shouldn't exist.

Or at least, the matter that makes up all the stuff in existence shouldn't be here. It should have been wiped out by the matching antimatter that was created with it in the first second after the Big Bang.”

CERN physicists conclude that a super-precise measurement shows proton and antiproton have identical magnetic properties.

Antimatter is like matter, but it has the opposite electrical charge and it destroys normal matter when they interact. It thus means the universe shouldn’t exist, CERN physicists conclude. or they will have to do away with the Big Bang Model.

Source:

Cupps, Vernon B. 2018. Baron Conservation and the Antimatter Mystery Acts and Facts 42.11, 16.

New research raises doubt on assumptions behind radiometric dating

What if these rocks in southern Finland are 10 000 times younger than supposed?




Joel Kontinen


CERN, The European Organization for Nuclear Research, recently published an interesting report on the radioactive decay of thorium-228. The research throws doubt on the view that external conditions cannot have an effect on decay rates.

The new study reveals that the “closed-system, no contamination” assumption is not correct. Fabio Cardone of the Institute per lo Studio dei Materiali Nanostrutturati in Rome and his colleagues noticed that ultrasonic cavitation in water caused thorium-228 to decay 10, 000 times faster than previously supposed.

The effect of water raises interesting questions. Do other radioactive substances also decay at faster rates than previously assumed? There is plenty of water on Earth and the global flood in Noah’s days is beginning to be an even more plausible explanation for accelerated decay rates.

The CERN report also states that scientists had previously noticed minor deviations from expected decay rates.

Popular science magazines have presented radioactive decay rates as almost absolute although geology abounds with “bad dates”. The new study suggests that we should take a skeptical approach to the belief in millions of years of earth history.

Source:

CERN Courier. 2009. Ultrasonic cavitation of water speeds up thorium decay. (8 June)