Antimeson
"Because it’s not a perfect flip," she said, pointing to a tiny discrepancy in the data. "It’s staying an antimeson for a fraction of a heartbeat longer than it stays a meson". The Shadow of the Big Bang
Elara realized she was looking at that "something" in real-time. This antimeson’s refusal to be a perfect mirror was a echo of the that allowed galaxies, stars, and humans to form from the leftover scraps of a cosmic explosion. The Final Decay antimeson
"It’s switching," she whispered. Her colleague, Marcus, leaned in. "We’ve seen mixing before, Elara. Why is this different?" "Because it’s not a perfect flip," she said,
Elara sat back, the blue light of the monitors reflecting in her eyes. The antimeson was gone, decayed into a spray of more stable particles, but its brief, flickering life had proven that the universe was slightly, beautifully broken. And in that crack, everything we know had found a place to grow. This antimeson’s refusal to be a perfect mirror
Particle seen switching between matter and antimatter at CERN