Physics: Celestial Coexistence

Neither the "steady-state" nor "expanding" universe theory fully satisfies Swedish Physicist Hannes Alfven. What bothers him is that both ignore the existence of antimatter. "It seems logically unsatisfactory," writes Alfvén in the current Reviews of Modern Physics, "that cosmological theories should be based on the assumption that the universe contains only matter." Recent subatomic-physics research has disclosed the existence of an antiparticle for every particle of ordinary matter, he says, thus there is every reason to assume that half the celestial objects in our universe are made of antimatter.

Proving Alfvén's assumption would be just as difficult as disproving...

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