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| Anti-matter: Mirror of the Universe |
According to Wikipedia, CP is ”the product of two symmetries: C for charge conjugation, which transforms a particle into its antiparticle, and P for parity, which creates the mirror image of a physical system.” CP Violation is the breaking of the CP law due to decay of kaons, the ‘short-lived mesons that decay into simpler particles’, in ‘slightly different modes than expected’. This apparently accounts for why there is not a 50/50 balance of matter and anti-matter in the Universe; which is a good thing, because scientists postulate they would destroy each other, and us with it.
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