There is news this morning from the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in CERN that they have observed CP-violation in the decays of one of the neutral B-mesons known as B0s. In less technical terms, this means that they have observed one of only four known particles in which matter and antimatter versions decay differently. ( Their formal paper announcing it can be viewed here. )

While this may seem rather academic in nature, it does have a potentially important role in understandin...
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