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Why does the Universe have antiparticles?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Philosophy of Anti-Particles

In general, anti-particles exist because particles exist and there's some sort of balance that was broken at the Big Bang. For every particle there has to exist an anti-particle in order to balance the forces in the universe similar to matter and antimatter. Do all particles have anti-versions or only some of them? Great question. I'm just anti-physics. I like all the other sciences. And that's an answer. Well, let's dig into it. Daniel, what are anti-partarticles? Is it like anti-matter? Exactly. Anti-particles are what make up anti-matter. So you could have, for example, anti-

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