Creation vs Evolution ♦ Big Bang

Not enough Antimatter

Antimatter concept was introduced before 1930 and was confirmed a few years later by the discovery of positrons (anti electrons). Since that time, other antiparticles have been found that look similar to their corresponding particles, but the charge is opposite. When one particle meets a corresponding antiparticle, both of them are destroyed and a high quantity of energy is released. When a collision happens between two photons of electromagnetic radiation (known as gamma rays), then the reverse process happens and a pair of particle and antiparticle is formed.

The production of matter is explained by the Big Bang model through this process of gamma rays collisions. But this implies that equal amounts of particles and antiparticles should have been formed and in this way matter and antimatter should be equally found in the universe. Instead of this, we see that our world is characterized generally by matter with only very small evidence of antimatter.

This is a problem for cosmology and a few explanations were brought into discussion. A concept of “theoretical asymmetry” between matter and antimatter seemed to solve the problem. By this asymmetry, it is said that in the early stages of our universe, there was more matter created than antimatter and the antimatter was destroyed colliding with the matter and all the matter we see today is the remaining surplus of the matter.

But is this what has really happened? Read the following articles and go deeper into this subject. You will realize that, while secular cosmologists struggle to explain why we see so little antimatter today, the Creation model has no problem with this.