Opposite stuff

摘要

AFRACTION of a second after the big bang, a new type of stuff flooded the universe. It was hot, it was self-destructive and it was weird. It wasn't matter. It wasn't antimatter. It was both. This was the electron-positron plasma, a perfect balance of electrons and their antimatter equivalent. Within seconds, it had blinked itself out of existence: electrons and positrons annihilate on contact, their mass converting entirely into energy.