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Why does the Universe have antiparticles?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Why Antimatter Saves the Day

Quantum mechanics has this problem with causality and allows things to move outside your light cone. We think special relativity is the law of the universe. Nothing moves faster than light. And it turns out that we need antimatter in order to do that. It's sort of like a plot twist. The villain actually turns out to be the good guy.

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