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Re: Where are the one billion universes? - 12-20-2007, 02:33 PM

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Hi everyone;

I have a new question to pose.Given the big bang, and the apparent inequality between matter and antimatter, in that everything wasn't annihilated at the beginning. The latest theory I heard was that for every one particle that survived 999,999,999,999 didn't.

My question is this. Where is the energy from those one billion universes which were annihilated?

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Profpat
The annihilation of particles and antiparticles in the early universe created around 2 billion photons. The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation is, basically, the energy left over from this annihilation.


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