Found in my notes, an unattributed quote: “The law of the unity of opposites is the fundamental law of the universe.”

According to the latest from the Hadron Collider, possibly not.

Apparently, there is a very slight asymmetry in the nature of the matter-antimatter continuum that explains the predominance of matter in the universe. They’ve found some new particles, the Charmed Quarks, that don’t mirror the behavior of their anti-matter counterparts the way they are supposed to according to the laws of particle physics as we know them today.

If confirmed over the next year or so, we may have to rethink particle physics, as if we had a firm grasp on it to begin with. I may have misconstrued the entire Yahoo article.  I think everything started out pretty evenly divided between matter and antimatter, but a lot can change in fourteen billion years.

Stay tuned for more news from the Hadron Collider. Just remember, quarks have flavors.