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Matter–antimatter asymmetry
The Big Bang should have made equal amounts, which would have annihilated. About one extra matter particle per billion pairs survived. The Standard Model's CP violation is far too weak to explain that excess, so something beyond it is required.
Posed 1967, Andrei Sakharov's conditions.
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