Mit einem ERC-Grant ausgezeichnet: Simon Stellmer
Simon Stellmer has been awarded a prestigious ERC Starting Grant. He will now use ultracold mercury atoms to investigate fundamental symmetries in nature. Why is there matter in the universe at all? To date there has been no conclusive answer to this question. Our understanding of the Big Bang is based on the assumption that equal amounts of antimatter and matter were created. But matter and antimatter cancel each other out. In a universe where there is a perfect balance between particles and antiparticles, matter and antimatter should have destroyed one another a long time ago. Our existence is proof of the fact that this balance is violated - physicists talk about fundamental symmetries in this context.
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