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CP Violation and the Information/Anti-Information Asymmetry

 

The logic is as irresistible as it is faulty: the process of baryogenesis, by which matter came to dominate over antimatter, requires that there be CP violation in the early universe; we are studying CP violation here in the late universe; obviously, what we’re doing helps us understand the matter/antimatter asymmetry. But that’s only true if the
kind
of CP violation we are studying is actually somehow related to baryogenesis. Which, most experts believe, it is not.

 


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