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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

ANTIMATTER. “For each elementary particle, there is an antiparticle that has the same properties but opposite charge. The best-known example is the antielectron, or positron.” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01000-9 View in LinkedIn

THE LEGO KIT. “All visible matter in the Universe is made of fundamental building blocks, the elementary particles. The group of particles known as fermions consists of two types: quarks, which make up protons and neutrons; and leptons, namely, the electron, muon, tau particle and neutrino.” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01000-9 View in LinkedIn

“The Sombrero Galaxy as never seen before? Discovered by Pierre Méchain at the end of the 18th century, it is one of the sharpest and most spectacular images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, especially because the angle at which it is seen from our planet creates a tremendously impressive visual effect. Photo: NASA/ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team.” https://lnkd.in/emvGR325 View in LinkedIn

INTUITIVE BIAS. “One reason we consider Newton brilliant is that in order to come up with his second law he had to ignore some data. He had to imagine, for example, that things were falling in a vacuum, free of the interfering effects of air resistance.” https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/09/are-we-witnessing-the-dawn-of-post-theory-science?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other View in LinkedIn

SURPRISE. “In a mirror world, antiparticles should behave in the same way as particles. But it emerges that leptons — neutrinos, electrons and their more exotic cousins — might not obey this expected pattern.” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01000-9 View in LinkedIn