A Ray of Knowledge on Antimatter

Scientists announced a significant step towards solving one of the universe's great mysteries on Tuesday; the puzzle of what happened to all the antimatter that emerged during the Big Bang. According to the Big Bang theory, the universe appeared following a massive explosion 14 billion years ago. The standard model of particle physics, which explains much of what is known about the universe, indicates that the Big Bang should have produced equal amounts of matter and antimatter. Since they annihilate each other, scientists have been trying to understand why a relatively small amount of matter remains, allowing for the formation of stars, planets, and ultimately life, while antimatter has disappeared. For scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), it took decades to figure out how to create an antimatter version of the most fundamental atom, which is hydrogen, and trap it long enough to conduct experiments. A research group in the scientific journal 'Nature' has reported that a new method has allowed physicists to study the behavior of a single antimatter atom under ultraviolet light; an experiment conducted at CERN. In this context, Kamran Vafa, a scientist of Iranian descent, has stated that he has drawn inspiration from Biruni and Khayyam. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 was awarded to three British scientists, and new fundamental particles were discovered at CERN, along with the discovery of an organic molecule in the center of the Milky Way, indicating that intergalactic spaces are not 'empty'.