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What percentage of the universe is antimatter?

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Is some of the universe still antimatter and will it all eventually encounter matter and annihilate.

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I was meaning antimatter left over from the big bang.

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Is there good evidence to support this or is it a prediction?

 

How do we know if other galaxies are made of matter or antimatter?

 

How do we know that there isn't lone antimatter drifting in voids?

If there were clouds or galaxies of antimatter then there would be a point where they meet interstellar matter - this would cause distinctive radiation. There have been, and are, experiments to look for this, but so far the evidence isn't there.

For example: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2009/14aug_ams/

 

But they have found all sorts of interesting things. For example:

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2007/antimatter_binary.html

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/news/new-structure.html

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