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Val Fitch's findings impacted theories of the early universe, especially concerning the abundance of what?

  • Hydrogen

  • Dark Energy

  • Antimatter

  • Solar Wind

Answer

Antimatter, the opposite of regular matter, was once thought to be equally abundant in the early universe. Val Fitch's experiments, which detected a tiny asymmetry between matter and antimatter in kaon decays, challenged this assumption. This discovery led to the realization that the universe's matter-antimatter imbalance is responsible for the existence of all matter in the universe today.
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