Scientists at CERN are bemused as to why the universe exists, according to a new study.

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As Cosmos Magazine reports (via The Independent ), recent discoveries suggest that there's a perfect symmetry between matter and antimatter - meaning it's not clear why they didn't annihilate each other upon the birth of the universe.CERN's latest study sought to find out whether different magnetic properties accounted for matter's seeming victory after the Big Bang, but found another point of symmetry.Essentially, going by our findings so far, there simply shouldn't be a universe.CERN scientists now want to further examine anti-protons in the hope of finding some difference in their behaviour to those boring old regular protons we see all day long. Others are looking into the possibility that antimatter has a reversed gravity.There might be much a simpler explanation for all this - it might just be that our entire existence is being simulated by someone else, as posited by Elon Musk . Wouldn't that be nice?

Joe Skrebels is IGN's UK News Editor, and his worry is that as soon as we work out why matter and antimatter aren't symmetrical, they'll become symmetrical and destroy all existence just to spite us. Follow him on Twitter