
How charges and masses create the universe that surrounds us | By Ethan Siegel | Start with an explosion! | Sea, 2025
In the universe very early, there were a large number of quarks, leptones, antiquarks and antileptones of all species. After only a small fraction of a second has elapsed since the Hot Big Bang, most of these antimatter pairs of the subject are annihilated, leaving an excess of very small matter over the antimatter. How…