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above. SNOWMASS VILLAGE, Colo., July 6 By observing millions of
subatomic particles called B mesons, a team of scientists
working at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in California
has found new evidence of a basic but subtle lopsidedness in
nature that may explain why the universe contains mostly matter,
rather than being virtually empty and devoid of stars, planets
and people. The results found by a multinational team of about
600 physicists and engineers were announced today in Stanford.
The lopsidedness is "extraordinarily tiny," Dr. Jonathan Dorfan,
the director of the center, said at a meeting of physicists
here. Nonetheless, he said, it may explain "a spectacularly
interesting phenomenon, namely why we are here." The asymmetry
was first seen in 1964 by Dr. Val Fitch of Princeton University
and Dr. James Cronin of the University of Chicago in an
experiment for which they later r