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Originally Posted by jungle11
Forgive my ignorance, but I didn't think it was possible for antimatter to exist outside of relativistic impacts and such because as soon as it was created it would interact with matter and be destroyed.
Is this totally wrong?
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My impression is that they are looking for areas where the anti matter that was created in the big bang has been isolated from matter by the rapid expansion of the inflationary period:
"If clumps of matter and antimatter existed next to each other before inflation, they may now be separated by more than the scale of the observable Universe, so we would never see them meet," said Gary Steigman of The Ohio State University, who conducted the study. "But, they might be separated on smaller scales, such as those of superclusters or clusters, which is a much more interesting possibility."
This would require that matter and anti matter were distributed in part in discrete clumps.
Seems a bit of a long bow to draw - not that I'd know.