{"id":108694,"date":"2020-06-15T02:45:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T09:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/physicists-may-have-solved-long-standing-mystery-of-matter-and-antimatter"},"modified":"2020-06-15T02:45:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T09:45:27","slug":"physicists-may-have-solved-long-standing-mystery-of-matter-and-antimatter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/physicists-may-have-solved-long-standing-mystery-of-matter-and-antimatter","title":{"rendered":"Physicists May Have Solved Long-Standing Mystery of Matter and Antimatter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-may-have-solved-long-standing-mystery-of-matter-and-antimatter.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An element that could hold the key to the long-standing mystery around why there is much more matter than antimatter in our Universe has been discovered by a University of the West of Scotland (UWS)-led team of physicists.<\/p>\n<p>The UWS and University of Strathclyde academics have discovered, in research published in the journal Nature Physics, that one of the isotopes of the element thorium possesses the most pear-shaped nucleus yet to be discovered. Nuclei similar to thorium-228 may now be able to be used to perform new tests to try find the answer to the mystery surrounding matter and antimatter.<\/p>\n<p>UWS\u2019s Dr. David O\u2019Donnell, who led the project, said: \u201cOur research shows that, with good ideas, world-leading nuclear physics experiments can be performed in university laboratories.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An element that could hold the key to the long-standing mystery around why there is much more matter than antimatter in our Universe has been discovered by a University of the West of Scotland (UWS)-led team of physicists. The UWS and University of Strathclyde academics have discovered, in research published in the journal Nature Physics, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}