Humanity has questioned why we exist, perhaps most throughout history. The answers to this question or the methods of asking questions formed the present of humanity.
A research team of theoretical physicists claimed to know how to find the answer to the question of why humanity exists. The physicists stated that all that remains to be done is to detect the gravitational waves produced by strange quantum objects, also known as “Q balls” in the Milky Way.
‘Q Balls’ could prove the reason we exist
In a new paper published in the Journal of Physical Review Letters, scientists explained that one potential reason for our existence is the existence of theoretical “lumps”, or “Q balls,” in the universe that formed after the big bang 13.8 billion years ago. “These lumps are called Q balls. They’re just chunks of space,” said Graham White, a physicist at the Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe and lead author of the study. According to White, as the universe expanded, these Q balls hung around. And eventually, it became an important part of the universe.
Cosmologists, scientists who consider the universe as a whole, are confident that equal amounts of matter and antimatter have been produced since the beginning of the universe. Every type of matter has an antimatter partner with opposite properties. When matter and antimatter interact, they annihilate each other. According to particle physics; The fabric of the universe is covered with different quantum fields, each of which defines certain properties at all points in space. Fluctuations in these fields give rise to the fundamental particles that make up our physical reality. This makes our true existence even more mysterious.
Lead author Graham White stated that we are at an exciting point; “There are a lot of machines in the 2030s where we can see these gravitational waves,” he said. Expressing that it would be exciting to see them, White said that if these Q-balls really exist, they can be detected using gravitational waves.
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