Discovered: a galaxy of antimatter

We’ve found it! My colleagues are telling me to be cautious with my enthusiasm but I tell you categorically that we’ve found it! And on the very same day that CERN announces the Higgs Boson discovery! At 10.08 today the AMS detected streams of anti-helium nuclei originating from an as yet unnamed distant galaxy. The 1/R distribution direct from the AMS quite clearly shows the spike:



The notion of this antimatter has such a lonely, majestic elegance - a stream of cosmic particles that has travelled billions of light years, tracing intergalactic magnetic-field lines, to rain down on the detector high above our heads. And think of what this means! Out there, in the far flung reaches of the Universe, are galaxies, solar systems, planets, possibly even life, made completely of antimatter. Our vast, seemingly limitless Universe exists in a perfect balance of matter and antimatter, a perfect equilibrium. The idea is nothing short of phenomenal! And for us here on Earth... unknown variables in cosmic equations can be determined, models of our Universe more accurately projected and perhaps the most important of all, could this antimatter be contained and somehow harnessed? Have we found a viable source of antimatter for the propulsion systems that until now have been the stuff of science fiction? The mind truly boggles with the prospects of this momentous day! I can scarcely think of anything but antimatter galaxies; all the cosmic grace of our own Milky Way but composed of this fundamental opposite. What else might be reversed in this mirrored world? Photons of light are their own anti-particle, but we know charge is reversed. What else could be reversed? Is up down? Is left transposed to right? What of right and wrong? What of love and hate? These revelations have made my senses come alive and great work is achieved when all the senses are engaged.