MadSci Network: Astronomy |
Matter and anti-matter formed in the Big Bang would coagulate out to stop the anhialation phase, and anti-gravity would then help drive the expanding universe. This parity in the law of gravitation would also serve to prevent large amounts of matter and anti-matter from coming into contact. The coagulation would separate the two into galaxies or clusters of galaxies, so that it is extremely unilkely to encounter a macroscopic sample of antimatter in a matter galaxy, or vice versa. Using the "rubber sheet" analogy, I picture anti-matter bending space in the opposite direction from matter, forming peaks instead of wells. Since gravity is billions of times weaker than electromagnetism, it should be extremely difficult to detect anti-gravity effects on magnetically-bottled subatomic particles of anti-matter.
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