An Ancient Roman Shipwreck May Explain the Universe

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An Ancient Roman Shipwreck May Explain the Universe


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Why would astrophysicists care about a two millennia old Roman shipwreck between the islands of Sardinia and Mal Di Ventre? Why would archaeologists care about a particle physics experiment hiding deep beneath the…

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  1. Title is a wee bit (intentionally?) misleading here. It suggests the shipwreck may explain the universe, not that some parts of it helped to make a device that may explain the universe!

  2. I would imagine the reason all the matter and anti matter weren't ALL annihilated is the same reason not every person within the viscinity of the nuclear blasts were killed (hibakusha). The same reason not every block of TNT detonates in monecraft when you make a 100³ with them. I would wager the collision happened and some of the matter and anti matter just.. didn't meet. The massive rate of expansion and the energy of all the other collisions pushed some of them apart faster than they could meet in time. I assume there's even antimatter out there and now it'll just never come into contact with matter.

  3. Is there a reason why the experiment cant be left to continue for an extended period of time? Sort of just left alone for a while. Surely 5 years isn't enough to determine that it would take 38 trillion trillion years to halve the radioactivity? Just curious