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Quark statistics shed light on Universe’s symmetry

APR 08, 2009
Physics Today

Nature News : The fundamental asymmetry in the laws of physics called charge-parity violation is tiny, yet it looms large enough in physics to have led to Nobel prizes on three occasions. A persistent puzzle is why the asymmetry is so small -- some theories imply that it could, and perhaps should, be much bigger. Now, research is bolstering a previous suggestion that the smallness is not a mystery but rather an inevitable consequence of another basic fact in physics: that the three known families of quarks have the masses that they do.

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