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UNKNOWN MODES OF BEING (WW). “There was a hint of fear, not for our lives, but of a vast unknown which pressed in upon us. A fleeting feeling of disappointment -- that after all those dreams and questions this was only a mountain top -- gave way to the suspicion that maybe there was something more, something beyond the three-dimensional form of the moment. If only it could be perceived.” (Tom Hornbeam, 1963 upon summiting Everest, page 1). https://lnkd.in/exjbzyHG View in LinkedIn

THE NUT. “CP violation is one of the key ingredients needed to explain why there is a small excess of matter over antimatter in the Universe.” (CP = charge-conjugation parity-reversal). https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01000-9 View in LinkedIn

DARK MATTER SEARCHES. “In recent years, this field has witnessed significant advancements on both experimental and theoretical sides, stimulated by new-generation space-borne experiments such as PAMELA, the Fermi-LAT telescope, and the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer AMS-02.” https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10686-021-09708-w.pdf View in LinkedIn

THE PUZZLER. “Why is CP symmetry broken, and what are its consequences? This puzzling question lies at the core of our understanding of the laws of nature and the evolution of the Universe.” (CP = charge-conjugation parity-reversal). https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01000-9 View in LinkedIn

THE KEY. “The most promising channels for indirect DM searches are those involving antimatter in the final state, e.g. elementary antiparticles such as e+, anti-p or anti-nuclei such as anti-D, anti-3He.” (DM = dark matter). https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10686-021-09708-w.pdf View in LinkedIn

THEORY. “Particle–antiparticle mirror symmetry is also known as charge-conjugation parity-reversal (CP) symmetry; it combines the charge symmetry between particles and their antiparticles with parity (the idea that physical laws should not change in an antimatter mirror world).” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01000-9 View in LinkedIn

THEORETICAL SUPPORT. “Dark matter In spite of the lack of evidence for Beyond-Standard-Model (BSM) particles from experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), TeV-scale models of DM particles are nicely supported by cosmological constraints.” https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10686-021-09708-w.pdf View in LinkedIn

RULE BREAKERS. “It was long thought that antiparticles would behave in the same way as particles in a mirror world made of antimatter, but since the 1960s we have known that quarks and antiquarks break this particle–antiparticle mirror symmetry.” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01000-9 View in LinkedIn

NEUTRINO MASS. “However, the discovery of neutrino oscillations by the Super-Kamiokande experiment in 1998, and by the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory in 2002, proved that these particles do have mass.” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01000-9 View in LinkedIn

THE MENU. “Neutrinos come in three types (flavours), determined by their associated charged lepton, whether that is an electron, a muon or a tau particle. It was long thought that neutrinos were massless.” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01000-9 View in LinkedIn