Scientists have revealed the role of cosmic nodes in the formation of matter

Scientists from Japan have revealed a new idea explaining why there is matter in the universe, while antimatter has almost completely disappeared. This was reported on December 7 in the journal Science Daily.

According to the Big Bang theory, the universe should have been born with the same amount of matter and antimatter. These particles destroy each other, and if everything were perfectly balanced, the universe would remain empty. But today we see only matter: stars, planets, people — all this is made of matter.

Muneto Nitta, a professor at the International Institute of Stability with Nodal Chiral Metamaterials (SKCM2), suggested that special "cosmic nodes" appeared at an early stage of the universe. These are not real nodes, but complex structures that have arisen due to special laws of physics. They could "rule" the energy in the universe for a short time and then collapsed, creating particles that slightly preferred matter. This is what gave rise to our material universe.

"This study solves one of the fundamental mysteries of physics: why our universe is made of matter rather than antimatter," said Professor Nitta.

He stressed that understanding this process is directly related to the existence of stars, galaxies, and humanity. According to the standard particle model, matter and antimatter should have formed in equal quantities and destroyed each other. However, the universe is almost entirely made up of matter. The model with cosmic nodes explains how every billionth particle survived in the early universe, providing the current material content of the cosmos.

The scientists used two special laws of nature: one helps to understand why neutrinos have mass, and the other is related to the axion particle, which may be part of dark matter. Together, these laws create "cosmic nodes" — stable structures that can exist for a long time and retain their shape. As the universe expanded, the nodes gradually dominated the radiation, and their decay produced heavy right-handed neutrinos. Further splitting of these particles caused an excess of matter necessary for the formation of stars, planets and life.

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