The results of a comparison between hydrogen's spectral fingerprints and those of its mirror twin are in, and the news is frustrating – they're a match right down to just two parts per trillion. If they turned out to be even a tiny bit different, physicists might at last have a way to explain why our Universe contains more matter than antimatter. But even though the results are still exciting, one of science's biggest mysteries – why the universe itself exists – remains unsolved. [
1] We argue about miracles. We analyze them. We deny them. And yet, the biggest miracle of all times is the one we experience every passing minute. We should not be here. We should not exist. Nothing should. And yet, here we are. Once upon a time… nothing became something. Chaos transformed into order. The symmetry was broken. And life came into existence. A manifestation of nothingness in a void cosmos. But what is not can never be. Look again. The symmetry is still there. Chaos still rules the cosmos. The cosmos is still full of… nothing. And yet. So full of everything. Look there. Beyond the rings. A flower. Floating in deep space…
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