Antimatter & the Matter--Antimatter Asymmetry

Antimatter isn't a separate kind of stuff — it's just the mirror image of ordinary matter knots.

Every stable particle (like an electron) is a helical toroidal Hopfion: a knot of light with a specific linking number (Q = +1 for charge +e) and a specific handedness in its internal twist (left-handed for spin alignment).

The positron (antimatter electron) is literally the CP-mirror of that knot: linking number Q = -1 (opposite charge -e) and opposite twist handedness (right-handed).

In the early universe, knot and anti-knot pairs were created in equal numbers from vacuum excitations — just like electron-positron pairs in high-energy collisions today.

The vacuum Lagrangian is exactly CP-symmetric, so matter and antimatter knots have identical masses and lifetimes. That's why antimatter looks just like matter in experiments (e.g., anti-hydrogen atoms at CERN have the same spectrum).

The universe has a tiny asymmetry: about 1 extra matter particle for every 10 billion matter-antimatter pairs (the baryon-to-photon ratio η ≈ 6 × 10^{-10}).

In LIMA-QTE, this comes from a small bias during the inflationary era — no GUT-scale decays or leptogenesis needed.

During the violent saturation-dominated inflation (when fields were at maximum strength F² ≈ 1/λ₂), the chiral term λ₁ (F ⋆ F)² slightly prefers left-handed knots over right-handed ones.

This creates a tiny excess of left-handed knots surviving the chaotic early phase: Δn/n ≈ λ₁ ≈ 0.06 (the same λ₁ that fixed α).

After ~50 e-folds of exponential expansion, that small initial bias dilutes to exactly the observed asymmetry.