On the Origins of Galaxies

Abstract

IT was suggested recently that, if mesons are bound states of nucleon–antinucleon pairs, there might be a spatial separation of matter and antimatter in the black-body radiation above a critical temperature of about 350 MeV ¹ leading to the production of separate condensations of matter and antimatter. Some approximations made in that work have been removed recently by using the work by Dashen Ma and Bernstein (Institute for Advanced Study, preprint, 1969) on the statistical mechanics of elementary particles (also my unpublished work). The sizes of the condensations have also been computed in the latter paper as D₀ = 10⁻⁶ cm at the end of the critical period (kT = 350 MeV) in the Lemaître–Gamow universe². Their density is then of the order of the nuclear density.