Matter:Anti-Matter imbalance achieves a higher probability:

[patrice]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13988836

Still a little short of a "significant" effect, but improved reliability nonetheless:

The researchers now have 50% more data to work with, and have tried to establish that their earlier result in fact came from the particle decays that they first proposed.

As they reported this Thursday, they have now reduced the uncertainty in their experiment to a level of 3.9 sigma - equivalent to a 0.005% probability that the effect is a fluke.

[cliffordu]

1. Are you talking about "It matters, It don't matter"

Or physics??

[damntexdem]

2. I'm so glad.. Don't you just hate it when there's too much antimatter around the universe?

I mean, BOOM!

[crikkett]

3. Isn't that how the Enterprise ran? Antimatter engines? n/t

[laconicsax]

4. The warp engines were powered by a controlled matter-antimatter reaction.

The impulse engines were fusion powered.

[Ready4Change]

5. And the Captain

Was powered by the awesome-awesome reaction.

[Elmore Furth]

6. Koooooool!

The proton-antiproton collisions in turn create a number of different particles, and the team operating the Tevatron's DZero detector first noticed a discrepancy in the decay of particles called B mesons.

These decayed into pairs of particles called muons alongside pairs of their antimatter versions, antimuons. But, as the team reported in May 2010 in a paper published in Physical Review Letters, there was a notable 1% excess of the matter particles.

As they reported this Thursday, they have now reduced the uncertainty in their experiment to a level of 3.9 sigma - equivalent to a 0.005% probability that the effect is a fluke.

But particle physics has a strict definition for what may be called a discovery - the "five sigma" level of certainty, or about a 0.00003% chance that the effect is not real - which the team must show before they can claim to have solved the long-standing matter/antimatter mystery.

Antimatter Tevatron mystery gains ground