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Added a theological component to the discussion of antimatter
The researchers calculate that a relatively ordinary star getting torn apart by a black hole or neutron star orbiting around it — a so-called "low mass X-ray binary" — could spew on the order of one hundred thousand billion billion billion billion positrons (a 1 followed by 41 zeroes) per second. These could account for a great deal of the antimatter that scientists have inferred, reducing or potentially eliminating the need for exotic explanations such as ones involving dark matter.
The researchers calculate that a relatively ordinary star getting torn apart by a black hole or neutron star orbiting around it — a so-called "low mass X-ray binary" — could spew on the order of one hundred thousand billion billion billion billion positrons (a 1 followed by 41 zeroes) per second. These could account for a great deal of the antimatter that scientists have inferred, reducing or potentially eliminating the need for exotic explanations such as ones involving dark matter.
Although it is known that God created matter on the first day, it is not known on which day God created antimatter. Some creation scientists say that since antimatter is required for the existence of matter, it must have been created on day one, at the exact same moment God created antimatter. However, some theologians propose that antimatter was not a part of the original creation, but was introduced, along with the second law of thermodynamics, after the [[Fall of man]].
[[Category:Physics]]
[[Category:Physics]]