SUMMARY: An international team of researchers have recently launched a huge balloon, the size of a football field, in Antarctica. The instrument, called BESS-Polar launched from McMurdo Station on December 13, and will spend at least 10 days at an altitude of 39 km (24 miles); at the edge of space. The experimenters hope that BESS-Polar will be able to detect any evidence of antimatter created during the Big Bang. And as a bonus, if the instrument can find low-energy antiprotons, it would be evidence of radiation from evaporating black holes, predicted by Stephen Hawking.

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How can this be? The method of detection must be that of detecting gammas specific to the proton/anti-proton annihilation event. I seem to have forgotten, assuming I ever knew, what happens to the excess energy after the annihilation event involving high energy anti-protons. Can electron/positron collisions/annihilations involving very high energy particles possess enough energy to appear after the annihilation event to have been proton level annihilations?

Let's hope that the configuration of the strong gravitational, electric and magnetic fields at times near T0+10^-43 seconds did not dump all the antimatter into an enormous black hole. If instead of one it's a set of anti-matter black holes spread out at the periphery of the matter portion of this chunk of the universe, we have the source of energy required to power the expansion and dark energy is not a name too far off the mark.

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For those inclined to oppose human meddling with the structure of the universe or the composition and configuration of objects and groups of objects within the universe, consider:
Whether there is a limit to the magnitude of a modulation of chaos below which order remains invariant? Or, is order but a fiction invented by perspectives applied over finite, however large, time intervals?