Imagine, the house needs $10,000 worth of repairs and you have no money to spare for it.

You go to the bank and borrow $10,000. That means you can go ahead with the repairs. However, it does not mean you are better off. The ten grand in your pocket is balanced by an equally sized debt the bank is kindly looking after for you. A way of looking at it is that you have $10,000 and you also have 10,000 “anti-dollars.” Bring them together and they will cancel each other out.

Imagine how odd it would be if you borrowed that money and then found your debt was only $1,000? Where did the other $9,000 “anti-dollars” go? That is exactly the problem facing us today in trying to understand the beginning of the universe.

In 1932, a physicist at Cal-Tech discovered there was a mirror image to the matter we are made of. The atoms in our bodies and the world around us consist of positively charged protons and negatively charged electrons. This mirror image matter, which came to be........

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