Over eighty years ago Nobel laureate Paul Dirac proposed the existence of subatomic particles with opposite electrical charges to normal particles. Actual antimatter particles were detected just a few years later.

Conventional theory suggests that there should be equal numbers of particles and anti-particles, but our universe is made up almost exclusively of the sort we're used to, with only sparse outcrops of the 'antimatter' sort.

WHY?

This question has puzzled generations of physicists and been the source of a number of Nobel Prize awards to those who've been able to detect slight differences in behaviour between some particles and their antiparticles. One of those Nobel prize-winners, in 2008, said in effect:
"We have yet to find any clear reason for cosmic particle-antiparticle asymmetry."

This presentation offers just such a reason, based on well-established science and recent findings published in peer-reviewed journals. The reasoning is very straightforward and logical, requiring no mathematics (apart from a simple proof that this situation can't be a result of coincidence - a view supported by those various Nobel prize awards).

This 'cosmic asymmetry' is shown to be a direct result of matter being formed from photons of electromagnetic energy - light (as described in these books). This achieves two major scientific breakthroughs in one step:
(a) It offers a clear and compelling reason for this cosmic particle-antiparticle imbalance;
(b) It strengthens yet further the case for particles of matter being formed from light.

The basis of these twin breakthroughs is a well-documented lopsidedness of photons that's been known of for a century or more, but never seen as significant. But put that lopsidedness alongside the lopsidedness of particle-antiparticle abundance and common-sense screams "These two are connected!" Careful consideration of the scientific evidence supports that commonsense view.

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