Scientists Discover Why the Universe Exists

Physicists have long wondered how the universe can exist when matter and anti-matter particles obliterate each other on contact, cancel each other out. But new data from a particle accelerator in the United States suggests a reason.The tests showed that when anti-protons and protons collide, the resulting new particles show a one per cent dominance of matter over anti-matter. Over a long period of time, this characteristic of the universe could explain why matter has come to dominate over anti-matter and the universe is able to exist.
"Many of us felt goose bumps when we saw the result," said Stefan Soldner-Rembold, a physicist at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom.
"We knew we were seeing something beyond anything we have seen before and beyond what current theories can explain." Time to rethink those theories.

Every basic particle of matter has a matching anti-particle. The anti-matter particle has the same mass as the matter particle, but an opposite electric charge. Particle accelerators, such as the Tevatron collider at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois, which conducted the tests, and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN on the Swiss-French border, use electric fields to smash particles into each other at incredibly high speeds.
Scientists then study the particles that are created. Researchers seek larger and larger accelerators in order to create collisions that more closely resemble those which took place soon after the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago, when the temperature and density of the universe were much higher.

The new findings deviate from what is known as the Standard Model, the theory created in the 1970s to explain the complex interaction of sub-atomic particles. Up until now, the model predicted a small preference toward matter over anti-matter, but not enough to explain the structure of the universe we see today.The findings come ahead of an experiment to be held at CERN, called LHCb, also aimed at explaining matter's dominance over anti-matter.
Consequently, the results of the test in the U.S. could soon be confirmed and expanded, forming the basis for a new or amended quantum theory. (-Quantum theory:theoretical physics that study the nature of matter.)

In a nut shell, we shouldn't exist because for every particle of matter there is a particle of anti-matter and they destroy each other. At least, so we have always believed. Finding out that there is a predominance of matter explains why we are still here; why all bodies in the universe are still here. So, to celebrate being here, why don't we slow global warming to guarantee we'll stll be here in a few more eons?