I mean, to organize the universe, something has to compute hyperbolic functions. There must be negative baryons up there somewhere. If they existed, they would be between the quasars and the heavy gravity, would we really see them?
Antiprotons have been detected in cosmic rays for over 25 years, first by balloon-borne experiments and more recently by satellite-based detectors. The standard picture for their presence in cosmic rays is that they are produced in collisions of cosmic ray protons with nuclei in the interstellar medium, via the reaction, where A represents a nucleus:
p + A → p+ p +p+ A
The secondary antiprotons (p) then propagate through the galaxy, confined by the galactic magnetic fields. Their energy spectrum is modified by collisions with other atoms in the interstellar medium, and antiprotons can also be lost by "leaking out"[citation needed] of the galaxy.
The antiproton cosmic ray energy spectrum is now measured reliably and is consistent with this standard picture of antiproton production by cosmic ray collisions.[2] This sets upper limits on the number of antiprotons that could be produced in exotic ways, such as from annihilation of supersymmetric dark matter particles in the galaxy or from the evaporation of primordial black holes. This also provides a lower limit on the antiproton lifetime of about 1-10 million years. Since the galactic storage time of antiprotons is about 10 million years, an intrinsic decay lifetime would modify the galactic residence time and distort the spectrum of cosmic ray antiprotons.
Now we got ourselves a real puzzle. My problem is there is no intrinsic property of the vacuum called charge, or negative; for that matter. How could there be? Fermi Dirac started with the assumption of this intrinsic property, then derived the flip over. I can see not much more than some things bigger than others. Hmmm...
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